An Orange County Sheriff's Department employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of forging checks and using her grandmother's name to fraudulently use credit cards.
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Roxana C. Laub, 33, of Santa Ana, pleaded guilty to single counts each of bank fraud and identity theft.
Laub, a uniformed correctional officer for the Orange County jail, started her scheme in late 2015 to steal money from her grandmother, who was 75 at the time, prosecutors said in her plea agreement.
She forged her grandmother's signature on checks and then made payments to herself, prosecutors said.
Laub "then also fraudulently used grandmother's credit cards for personal expenditures for herself," according to prosecutors.
Additionally, prosecutors said she paid the credit card bills out of her grandmother's bank account.
From December 2015 through January 2017, she wrote about 20 checks with her grandmother's forged signature on them, amounting to about $45,000, according to prosecutors.
Laub opened up a credit card account in her grandmother's name in September 2018, and she used the card to charge thousands of dollars that she used to pay for restaurant meals, a bar and nightclub, prosecutors said.
The loss to her grandmother is between $45,000 to $90,000, according to prosecutors.
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