A woman who stole of thousands of dollars from a Garnett church in a check writing scheme in 2019, has escaped extradition to Missouri on a more recent bad check charge in that state, because she’d already been remanded to state prison for violating her probation in Kansas.
Anderson County Attorney Elizabeth Oliver, says Jennifer McSwane was remanded to the Kansas Department of Corrections after an October court appearance for violation of her probation. Her deferred prison sentence was put in place for the probation violation. McSwane was sentenced in June of 2019 to 18 months probation and $23,000 in restitution and fines after a scheme that saw her steal checks from the Life Assembly of God Church in Garnett where her grandmother was bookkeeper. McSwane wrote checks from the church to her grandmother, then removed cash from her grandmother’s account using her debit card. Life Assembly of God never recovered from the theft and closed soon after.
Court records show she never repaid the court fines or restitution. Records show she was followed by a variety of collection actions since the sentencing, including a lawsuit filed last August by an Emporia Funeral Home for costs associated with services for her mother.
