Woman sentenced for another embezzlement

Thu, Jul 2, 2009

MOUNT CLEMENS (AP) — A Warren woman who police say stole money from an employer to pay off restitution for her theft at a prior job has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison.

Macomb County Circuit Judge Peter Maceroni sentenced Laura Evans on Wednesday despite the 41-year-old woman's attempt to postpone the hearing, saying she wanted to donate a kidney to her mother.

Evans pleaded no contest to a charge of embezzlement between $20,000 and $50,000.

Evans and her attorney sought to delay the sentencing by presenting documentation she is a good candidate to donate the kidney.

But an assistant Macomb County prosecutor protested, arguing the state Department of Corrections can release her to a medical facility to perform the transplant, if necessary. The judge agreed.