A Tucson woman who stole $183,000 in methadone fees from a social-service agency has recently been sentenced to five-years probation and ordered to pay restitution and investigation costs.
According to the Arizona Daily Star, Mary Ann Diaz worked at La Frontera in Tucson and was responsible for collecting fees from people seeking methadone and depositing those fees. Over more than a two-and-a-half year period between 2007 and 2010, Diaz would routinely take one or two days' worth of fees and use them to gamble. In April 2010, she was indicted on one count of fraud and theft. She pleaded guilty to theft in December 2010.
Diaz told her sentencing judge that she suffered from a gambling addiction and has sought help for it. She told the judge that she's been seeing a therapist and is involved in a gambling recovery group.
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