Former state employee pleads guilty to forgery-related charges
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A former state employee has plead guilty to four forgery-related charges.
In a news release, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced that Renee Strong, 55, of Springfield, S.D., plead guilty to four forgery-related charges connected to crimes committed while she was an employee of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety and performing contract work for the Department of Health.
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Strong plead guilty Tuesday in Hughes County Circuit Court to two Class 6 felony counts of Offering False or Forged Instruments for Filing or Recording in a Public Office and two Class 5 felony counts of Forgery. She will be sentenced at 10:30 a.m. June 10.
Each felony count of Offering False or Forged Instruments for Filing or Recording in a Public Office carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a $4,000 fine. Each felony count of Forgery carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Strong was accused of forging and falsifying food service inspection reports while performing inspections for the Department of Health through a contract with the Department of Public Safety as a food inspector.
South Dakota's Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) investigated the case, and the Attorney General's Office is prosecuting the case.
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