Deferred sentence gets revoked
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District Judge Deborah “Kim” Christopher revoked the three-year deferred sentence of a St. Ignatius woman after she violated conditions of her release by committing more crimes.
Shaylynn Jamie Reid, 25, pleaded guilty to felony charges of forgery and theft of identity, and she was sentenced on June 17 to two years with the Montana Department of Corrections on each count to run consecutive to each other or a total of four years with all that time suspended.
According to court records, on April 12, law enforcement took a report from officials at Glacier Bank that a woman had recently attempted to cash a check in the amount of $5,983 that was written to another woman with the initials R.P. An investigation showed the check was not written to an R.P. but rather to a local business.
As the incident was being investigated, law enforcement took a report that a woman had cashed a check for $750 to a grocery store in Pablo. This check was also written to an R.P. The person who cashed the check produced the expired driver’s license of R.P. to cash it.
Investigators used surveillance from Glacier Bank to identify Reid as the woman who attempted to cash the check worth $5,983. When questioned about her attempts to cash the check, Reid admitted to “washing” the check and inserting R.P.’s name on it. She also admitted to using the expired driver’s license to cash the other check.
Christopher chastised Reid for committing the new crimes just five days after she received the three-year deferred sentenced and revoked it. Christopher then sentenced Reid to 10 years in the Montana State Women’s prison on the underlying charge of bail jumping.
Reid has had other legal troubles in Lake County that include forgery and burglary according to prosecutor Ben Anciaux with the Lake County Attorney’s Office.
