Woman pleads guilty for her tenants’ crime

Also in the court, a babysitter claimed she rented her house in 2003 to some Honduran nationals while she worked on a ship. Since that time, her tenants were reportedly stealing electricity. The home owner, Beverly Perez, was today levied with a criminal charge of Abstracting Electricity and she was spared jail time by Magistrate Tracy Sosa who instead imposed a non custodial sentence on the Ladyville resident. According to police, a B.E.L. supervisor visited Perez’s house on Arizona Street where he detected a connection from the B.E.L. main line to a lamp post in Perez’s yard. Further investigations by B.E.L. revealed that the line was not authorized by B.E.L. In court, after Perez pleaded guilty, she asked Magistrate Sosa to allow her to explain the situation and that’s when she told the court that she had not been living in the house for the period in question. Magistrate Sosa responded that she should not have pleaded guilty and should have fought the case instead. Perez claimed that she could not locate her previous tenants and because the house and electricity were still in her name, she thought that she had to take the blame. Magistrate Sosa imposed a fine of five hundred dollars, to be paid by October seventh.