Posted on 11/16/2005 10:01:41 AM PST by ncountylee
A jury on Tuesday convicted an Orange County deputy sheriff of six theft counts in connection with $23,000 she received by mistake when she was called for National Guard duty before the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Orange County Deputy Sheriff Tawanda McNeil, indicted on federal embezzlement charges in September, sat in silence in Orlando's federal courthouse while listening to the verdict. Jurors took nearly three hours after a two-day trial to find McNeil guilty of pocketing $8,291.
McNeil, a four-year deputy suspended without pay two months ago, was acquitted of 12 other identical counts.
"This case is about an Army National Guard sergeant who took advantage of an administrative error . . . and she did that intentionally and willfully," Assistant U.S. Attorney Cynthia Hawkins told jurors in closing remarks.
McNeil testified Tuesday that she was paid while training for overseas deployment and she thought she was on active duty even though she was not working for the National Guard full time. However, Hawkins later said her testimony and lack of records did not back her story.
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Tawanda go to prison.
LMAO
tawanda will throw herself on the mercy of the court claiming her deprived life entitled her to the money. And she works for law enforcement? Wow.
I love it when the thieves get just what they deserve! Say it ain't so, Tawanda!!
She's still taking by using a public defender.
Who's there?
Tawanda
Tawanda who?
I'm going tawanda off with as much taxpayers' money as I can lay my hands on, honey chile.
Leni
Well if everyone with military pay problems goes to jail, you'll have millions of us behind bars.
Leni,
Don't quit your day job.
Leni
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