{"id":23809,"date":"2016-06-20T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/police-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-from-evidence-room\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:00:21","slug":"police-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-from-evidence-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/police-employee-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-from-evidence-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Police employee pleads guilty to stealing from evidence room"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>A former North Slope Borough Police Department employee has pleaded guilty to stealing from a police evidence room and destroying case files.<\/p>\n

KTUU-TV reported that according to a plea agreement filed Friday in federal court, former evidence custodian Margaret Ann Solomon has admitted to taking at least $109,600 from an evidence room and destroying the related paperwork.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Solomon took cash from evidence envelopes. She admitted to having a gambling problem at the time of the thefts and to using some of the money to pay for pull tabs and gambling online through Facebook.<\/p>\n

The precise amount of cash Solomon stole is unknown.<\/p>\n

Case files that had missing evidence have been turned over to the state Law Department pending any requests for appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE \u2014 A former North Slope Borough Police Department employee has pleaded guilty to stealing from a police evidence room and destroying case files. KTUU-TV reported that according to a plea agreement filed Friday in federal court, former evidence custodian Margaret Ann Solomon has admitted to taking at least $109,600 from an evidence room and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23809"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}