PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) Three people, including two from northwest Florida, have been sentenced as part of a plea agreement concerning fraud charges.
39-year-old Jermaine Winters of Coleman, Florida, 24-year-old Senora Cotton of Chipley, Florida, and 23-year-old Rosetta Presley also of Chipley were sentenced in federal court Monday for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft
in connection with the electronic filing of false federal income tax returns.
According to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office, During their guilty pleas, Winters, Cotton, and Presley admitted that, between July 2011 and July 2012, they conspired to file fraudulent tax returns using the stolen identities of assisted-living facility residents who lived at the Dogwood Inn in Bonifay, Florida, as well as clinical laboratory patients from the Sun Laboratory Services in the Tampa, Florida area, and others.