Montrose - Daily Press

MONTROSE �” Saying Richard January needed to pay back his victims, District Attorney Myrl Serra told the court to sentence the convicted fraudster to community corrections instead of prison.

January, once accused of running an employment background-screening scam that bilked jobseekers, pleaded guilty earlier this year to theft in a series from a 2008 offense and, according to the DA’s office, saw his probation in two check fraud cases from 2007 revoked.

Other cases, including one in which he alleged invoked legitimate landscaping companies and charged people fees to be screened for non-existent jobs, were dismissed.

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Serra previously said, however, that restitution was being sought in all of the cases, and that a community corrections sentence would allow January, 23, to be able to pay back his victims much sooner than he could, were he to be incarcerated.

Serra echoed that at January’s sentencing Monday. He demanded the court order January to commcorr immediately.

“Was he manipulative? Of course he was �” that’s how people can commit these crimes. Getting Mr. January away from here is what’s best for everyone,” Serra said, adding, that if January failed at commcorr, the judge should “warehouse him” in prison.

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concerned res wrote on Nov 24, 2009 1:33 PM:

" What a joke of a sentence. They need to lock these fraudsters up in prison. Handing out stiff sentences like this sure is going to deter people from doing this kind of stuff in the future, NOT. "




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