LOGAN — A 40-year-old Wellsville woman has confessed to passing almost $180,000 in bad checks at a Hyrum grocery store. Jolene Ann Hervey has accepted a plea deal that could still send her to prison.
According to court records, Hervey appeared July 8, in Logan’s 1st District Court. She pleaded guilty to three counts of issuing a bad check and one count of pattern of unlawful activity, amended to third-degree felonies; and one count of issuing a bad check, a class A misdemeanor.
On Nov. 16, 2022, Cache County Sheriff’s deputies received a call from employees at the store. They reported Hervey passed multiple bad checks between September 2021 and November 2022.
It was reported to deputies that Hervey passed 393 checks, totaling approximately $178,000. The checks were written from four different bank accounts, court records detailed.
Deputies subpoenaed information from the four banks. They all reported the accounts had been opened by Hervey and later closed at the time the checks were written.
Hervey has not been arrested or booked into the Cache County Jail. She is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 19, where she could face up to five years in prison.