Gas station employees face forgery charges
Former employees of the Shell Gas Station in Ladyville were in court to today to face charges of theft and forgery. The main alleged offender is twenty-four year old Martin Martinez, who was charged with a total of forty-five counts; nineteen counts of Theft and twenty-six counts of Forgery for over ten thousand dollars that were allegedly misappropriated between August twenty-eighth and November twenty-eighth, 2011.
Twenty-four year old Vincio Tuario was charged with two counts of Theft and four counts of Forgery for a total of one thousand, nine hundred and fifty-three dollars that went missing from the company during the period of October thirty-first and November twenty-fourth, 2011. A third Ladyville resident was also charged with five counts of Forgery and two counts of Theft. All three men were granted bail of six thousand dollars with varying conditions.