Bookkeeper Alyce Letisha Biggs will serve 11 years in prison after being sentenced for committing workers’ compensation insurance fraud, tax fraud and grand theft. (File Photo)
By G.T. Houts
San Bernardino, CA – Lake Arrowhead bookkeeper Alyce Leticia (Tisha) Biggs, 44, has been sentenced to 11 years in state prison for committing workers’ compensation fraud, tax fraud and grand theft.
The sentence was handed down by Judge Annemarie Pace on Friday.
CASE INFORMATION
Biggs, former owner of Tisha Biggs & Company in Cedar Glen, was convicted in 2010 of workers’ compensation insurance fraud, tax fraud and grand theft. Judge James Dorr granted 60 months of supervised probation for all charges and ordered her to serve a year in custody.
Following completion of her custody time and, while on probation, the San Bernardino County District Attorney reports Biggs continued to steal from at least two of her clients.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S COMMENTS
“Biggs would take bank deposits from the victims that consisted of cash and checks, and, on the way to the bank would pocket the cash and only deposit the checks,” according to Deputy District Attorney Michael Chiriatti, Jr. stated.
Chiriatti, who prosecuted the case, reported that Biggs’ criminal activity continued for at least three years.
“As a result,” Chiriatti stated in a media release, “she was rearrested, her probation revoked, and a new criminal case was filed.”
GUILTY PLEA
Biggs entered a guilty plea on Friday, January 17, to six new counts of grand theft, admitted a white collar crime enhancement, and admitted that she was in violation of her prior probation.
Biggs also agreed, when she entered the guilty plea, that she would pay back the victims all of the money she took from them.
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