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Published 9:22am Friday, March 15, 2013 Updated 11:27am Friday, March 15, 2013

Woman sentenced for check forgery

A New York Mills woman who allegedly passed a check from an account that was not hers pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday in Otter Tail County District Court.

Christina Marie Greer, 32, was sentenced to 180 days in Otter Tail County Jail, with 170 days stayed, for one count of gross misdemeanor check forgery. She is to serve 10 days. She was also sentenced to two years supervised probation.

According to the criminal complaint, a man reported Nov. 2, 2012 that there had been fraudulent activity on the joint checking account he has with his wife. He noted a check for $106 to the Cenex Store in New York Mills Sept. 19, 2012 that neither he or his wife wrote, the report says.

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