DD.Number: 27.22 FELONY COMPLAINT
Case Report No: _CA-W0357-22 Police Serial No: 0437 BlotterICC No; BL-002284-22
‘Appearance Ticket Return Date:
‘Amest Number:
Defendant in Custody from: to
DATE. OF BIRTH
(1) o9/031974
OFFENSE
GRAND
LARCENY 3RD
DEGREE
CLAss D
FELONY
COUNTIS): 1
PREPARED BY
DETECTIVE,
GREGORY GIBBS
‘Court Docket No:
WATERTOWN CITY COURT
245 WASHINGTON ST , WATERTOWN, NY 13601
‘THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NY
against
‘CARRI MAE PAIGE (47)
218 MULLIN ST
WATERTOWN, NY 13601
STATE OFNY
‘COUNTY OF JEFFERSON
DETECTIVE GREGORY P GIBBS, Shield 0437, being duly sworn, deposes and says that helshe ie a member ofthe
Watertown Police Depactment, County of Jefferson, Sate of NY and that en 07/01/2020 at about 0800 at Jefferson
‘County Treasurers Office, 175 ARSENAL ST, WATERTOWN in the County of Jefferson, Ste of NY,
‘CARRI MAE PAIG!
§ PL 155,35 Grand larceny inthe third degree subdivision - 1. person i guilty of grand larceny inthe hid degree when
he steals property and wien the value ofthe property exceeds three thovsand dollars,
‘TO WIT: On the aforementioned dt, time and locaton the above mectioned defendant did knowingly anghentgnally
steal $11,003.01 from the Jefferson County Treasure. Al contrary to the provisions ofthe tatu in auch 8 mada and
povided a
‘This complaint is based on Information & Belief, the source being My icvestgation asa Police Det
‘Watertown and attached supporting depositions
‘Supporting Deposition of Karen Christie annexed hereto and made a pert hereof.
‘Any lle stnfments made herein are punishable a 4 Cass A Misdemeanor pursuant Section 210.48 ofthe Penal Law.
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STATE OF NEW YORK BLOTTER# BL-2254 -22
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON SS: DATE: 05/16/2022
CITY OF WATERTOWN
I, Karen Christie, being born on QJM and being employed at the Jefferson County
‘Treasurer's Office, am providing this statement to Detective Gibbs of the Watertown Police
Department.
On January 19, 2022 we were told by Carri Paige that she had contracted COVID and would not
be in until she was well again,
Due to this circumstance, I started to process payments on installment contracts. Installment
contracts are entered into with taxpayers that have fallen behind on their eal property taxes and
‘want to make an effort to become current. In order to enter into ¢ contract agreement, they need
‘to make an initial payment of 25% of the back property taxes to show good faith. Many ‘ime
these transactions are in the form of cash. The tax payer then is supposed to make 4 payments.
per year for a term of 2 years. The tax payer comes in or mails payments to the Treasurer's
office and they are recorded in the general ledger based on the schedule from Tax Enforcement?
office for principal and intrest. We hold the payments in a general ledge acount and entrit™
into a spreadsheet as a double check of all payments made. After 7 payments are made the Tax
Enforcement office obtains a list of all payments and the dates they were made. They then
recalculate the amount paid, interest based on payments made and the dates and come up with a
final amount due. This calculation is sent by the Tax Enforcement office to the treasurer's office
and the tax payer comes and pays off the final amount due. Once we get the final payment, we
pay off the real property taxes in our tax program and make a final entry to clear the payments
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Once I started to process some payments made by tax payers, I received a payoff request from
Tax Enforcement office for the contract agreement with David Sanford, contract #19-6295. 1
‘was unable to locate the contract for Mr. Sanford,
‘When down payments or regular payments are made and the clerks are busy, they leave the
record in a bin until Carri or I have time to update the spreadsheet, Once the spreadsheet is
updated, iti filed with the rest of the contracts in numerical order. As it appeared that the
spreadsheet with records of payments had not been updated, [tried to bring it up to date, I noted
that ithad been quite a while since this process had been completed
I found many contracts in a bin that we usually reserve for paid off contracts and other
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correspondence from the employees of Tax Enforcement, such as notices of NSF checks or apher|
letters indicating some action from Tax Enforcement. When I update the spreadsheet, [try to [-
determine
‘the amount in the general ledger is relatively close to the excel spreadsheet, In Gey
todo that, all contract down payments and subsequent payments must be entered into the