Panama City

Ex-Bookkeeper Sentenced for Forging Checks at Florida Church

A former bookkeeper for a church in the Florida Panhandle will serve 20 years of probation after pleading no contest to forging 138 checks worth $38,849.

The News Herald of Panama City reports 38-year-old Kelli Elane Space was sentenced Monday.

She was arrested in April after authorities say she forged checks at Parker United Methodist Church over a six-month period.

Parker police detective Aaron Wilson wrote in a report Space cashed the checks at Walmart and Tyndall Federal Credit Union and the offenses were caught on video.

Court records indicate Space plans to appeal the ruling.

Copyright AP - Associated Press
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