(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Hallett woman who served less than a year in prison for forgeries in Pawnee County and Creek County has been charged in Payne County with passing three forged checks to the Cushing Walmart.
Arrest warrants were issued Friday for Judy Ann Leforce, 43, also known by the surnames of Wasson, Epperly and Miller, and her brother, Owen Eugene Miller Jr., 40, of Oilton, who was charged with passing two forged checks at two Cushing stores.
Leforce — who is on seven years’ probation for endeavoring to manufacture methamphetamine and possessing the drug, both in 2010 in Pawnee County — could receive an additional 21 years in prison if convicted of passing forged checks for $107 on April 4 and for $291 and $145, both on April 5, all to the Cushing Walmart.
Her brother, Miller, could be given a 14-year prison term if convicted of passing a $30 forged check to Bill’s E-Z-Out convenience store, and a $41 forged check to Atwood’s, both on April 5 in Cushing, according to the charges filed Thursday.
The alleged forgeries came to light after Deanna Richmond of Jennings told Cushing police on April 15 that she believed Leforce had stolen her checkbook in another jurisdiction, Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit filed Friday.
Her husband, Terry Richmond, said that the couple discovered that someone wrote a forged check for $30 on April 5 to Bill’s E-Z-Out on Main Street in Cushing and that when they reviewed the security footage, they believed the suspect to be Owen Miller, the affidavit said.
“Terry said that about a week ago, Miller came over to his house and he sold him a fuel tank for his pickup. Terry said that he and his wife suspect Miller’s sister (Leforce) stole the wallet because they were riding in the same vehicle together when the wallet ended up missing,” the affidavit alleged.
“Terry said that he has learned that three more forged checks were passed at the Cushing Walmart, one for $10, one for $97, and one for $145. Terry said that it also looks like one was passed at Atwood’s,” the affidavit alleged.
When Deanna Richmond reviewed the security footage from Walmart, she identified the woman passing the checks and signing her name as Judy Leforce, whose photo the Cushing police detective had obtained from the Pawnee County Sheriff’s Office, the affidavit alleged.
When Deanna Richmond reviewed the security footage from Bill’s E-Z-Out and Atwood’s, she identified the man passing the checks and signing the name of Terry Richmond as Owen Miller, the affidavit alleged.
Owen Miller is also suspected of passing two forged checks on the Richmonds’ accounts in Oilton, the affidavit alleged. Several other agencies are investigating forgeries involving the Richmonds’ checks in which Miller, ihs wife, and his sister, Leforce, are suspects, the affidavit alleged.
Leforce has an extensive criminal record and was released from prison about six years ago, state Department of Corrections records show.
In addition to her methamphetamine convictions in 2010 in Pawnee County, Leforce was convicted there in 2004 of second-degree forgery and concealing stolen property, for which she served about one year of prison followed by four years of probation, court records show.
Under the surname of Wasson, she was convicted in 2005 in Creek County of larceny from a house in Drumright in 1999, uttering a forged instrument and concealing stolen property in Drumright in 2003, and concealing stolen property in Sapulpa in 2000, for which she received a two-year prison term followed by three years of probation, court records show.
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