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Brittany Plotts with her attorney, Terry Shaw.
White Cloud woman faces jail for cashing ‘fake payroll check.’
#OceanaCountyCrime
By Allison Scarbrough. Editor.
HART — A 22-year-old White Cloud woman faces serving four and a half months in jail after pleading guilty in 27th Circuit Court Monday, Oct. 23, to a felony of uttering and publishing.
Brittany Lynn Plotts testified that she cashed a “fake payroll check” totaling $457.53 at Angelo and Ricardo’s restaurant in Hesperia last May. Plotts told Judge Robert D. Springstead that she used the money to bail a friend out of jail.
“I was hanging out with the wrong the people and doing drugs,” she told the judge. Having not slept for two days, she was sleep deprived, she said. “I barely remember doing it.”
Uttering and publishing is punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Sentencing guidelines in the case are 0-9 months, said Oceana County Prosecutor Joseph Bizon, and the plea agreement calls for sentencing at the midpoint of the guidelines.
Sentencing is set for Dec. 18 at 9:30 a.m.
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