GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.—A Fruitvale woman who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to probation in connection with a $38,000 welfare fraud investigation faces fresh allegations that she continued to take public-assistance dollars after a judge ordered her to stop.
Mesa County District Judge Richard Gurley issued an arrest warrant Friday for 34-year-old April Creasman after she failed to appear in court to answer allegations in a complaint filed by Mesa County’s Probation Department. The new complaint alleges that Creasman recently admitted to receiving food-stamp assistance after being disqualified from the program because of her conviction in May, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reported.
Creasman was sentenced May 15 to serve 20 years of probation and to make repayment to Mesa County Human Services, Colorado work assistance and Medicaid. She accepted the assistance between January 2008 and April 2012. Creasman pleaded guilty May 15 to a single count of felony theft.
Creasman was arrested in November after a Mesa County Human Services fraud investigation showed she failed to report that the father of five of her children had been living with her and supporting her financially as she was collecting assistance. Records showed the father earned more than $99,000 in gross income during 2011. No charges were filed against the father, who was not identified.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel,
