ORLANDO, Fla. – The head of a check fraud ring that hit numerous area credit unions and banks was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to racketeering, grand theft and forgery.
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Lucie Thomas, 42, and seven co-defendants -- who all pleaded guilty -- set up accounts using fraudulent checks and then made cash withdrawals at several branches, netting $5,000 daily, and more than $100,000 in total, prosecutors said.
Thomas was arrested in 2005 and was set for trial last year, but she didn't show up in court. She was arrested in January in a casino in Biloxi, Miss.
