According to the district attorney's office, a pre-setting hearing is a time for a defendant to accept the state's plea offer and then a date is set for the defendant to plead, or the defendant can decline the state's offer and the date for the defendant's preliminary hearing is then set.
A Gore woman, who was a former employee of a Gore insurance agency, is facing four counts of embezzlement and six counts of violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act after an investigation was conducted by the Oklahoma Insurance Department's anti-fraud unit. Sands is a former employee of Southlake Insurance agency of Gore. Her pre-setting hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. Aug. 31.
Sands, 27, was charged last month in Sequoyah County District Court. She was released from the Sequoyah County jail in Sallisaw on a $15,000 bond.
Court records indicate that when Sands received cash or checks from customers, she allegedly converted them to her own use, disposing of the office copy of the receipt and leaving several customers without insurance coverage.
According to the state's complaint, Sands obtained more than $6,000 from her alleged scheme. Since the discovery, the Oklahoma Insurance Department has suspended Sand's license to conduct insurance business in Oklahoma.
Three of the computer crimes allegations involve incidents where Sands allegedly pocketed the premium payments and then electronically submitted payments to the insurance company by debiting the Southlake account, causing a loss to the agency.
The remaining computer crimes allegedly involve three incidents in which Sands is accused of electronically securing insurance for herself or her husband, and debiting the premium payments from the Southlake account.
Elbert Ray Green of Roland is scheduled to be in court at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 14. He is facing three felony counts of lewd molestation and two counts of sodomy after a 10-year-old girl reported to police that she has been molested.
Green, 59, is accused of two counts of lewd molestation which occurred between May and August 2001, two counts of sodomy which occurred between September and October 2001, and a third count of lewd molestation which occurred between March and May 2003.
The girl told police that Green began molesting her between May and August 2001, before she began her first-grade year. She said Green had sexual contact with her about 20 times during a two-year period until she told him to stop.
During an interview with police, Green allegedly admitted to about 15 sexual incidents with the child, including sodomy. Green denied penetrating the girl. He allegedly told police that the girl asked him to teach her about sex.
Green is currently free on bond.
