Woman gets sentence for forgery

A woman was sentenced to two years probation for forging about $1,500 in checks and being caught with marijuana and methamphetamine at the train station.

Rebecca L. Allery, born in 1992, received two years, suspended, for forgery by common scheme, a felony. Allery was also sentenced for misdemeanor theft to six months suspended.

Allery, home town not available, was also sentenced as per the recommendation in presentence investigation for earlier offenses for charges of forgery by common scheme, a felony, and a misdemeanor count of theft. The sentences were not specified during the trial and information about them was not available.

The sentences will run at the same time and are pursuant to a plea deal that dismissed at least one charge.

Allery was also ordered to pay $800 in restitution payable to Bear Paw Credit Union.

Allery was found Sept.. 14, 2014, smoking marijuana with another person by the Amtrak Depot by border patrol agents. After a search, agents found two empty plastic bindles made for holding methamphetamine, a snort tube, a bindle with .7 grams of meth and 4.2 grams of marijuana.

Allery’s other offense happened a year later.

A man went to the police station Sept. 18, 2015, to report check forgery.

The man said he received notice from the credit bureau that he owed $90.77 for a bad check he wrote to a convenience store in July for $60.

The man said he had noticed the checkbook went missing around the time the check was written. He said he had called his bank, but the check to the store had not been stopped in time.

The man said he believed Allery had taken his checks because she had been in his home when she was friends with his roommate. The man said he had also talked to the employee at the store who took the check, who described the person writing the check as someone matching Allery’s description.

An officer followed up with an employee at the man’s bank, who said several checks had been stopped on the man’s account. The employee said Allery had come in with a $500 check that was cashed to her.

“In all, the total amount forged at the time of the report was $1,459.35,” court documents say.