Peshawbestown Resident Pleads Guilty to Theft From a Tribal Casino
| U.S. Attorney’s Office March 30, 2009 |
GRAND RAPIDS, MI—Angela Alcaraz, 38, of Peshawbestown, Michigan, plead guilty to theft by an employee from a tribal gaming organization, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today.
Alcarez admitted in her plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ellen Carmody that, while employed by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, she devised a scheme wherein she took Players Club cards of high rollers, created fictitious pin numbers and provided them to friends and family, who unbeknownst to the Players Club player, cashed in the points for money.
Sentencing will be scheduled within ninety days, before U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff. Alcaraz faces a maximum sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment and a fine of $1,000,000. The Defendant has also agreed to pay $ 8,731 in restitution to the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
U.S. Attorney Davis commended the Grand Traverse Band Tribal Police and special agents of FBI, Traverse City for their work on the case. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff J. Davis.