KEALAKEKUA — A Waimea woman employed by Adult Protective Services who pleaded guilty to stealing money from a female client under her care is scheduled to be sentenced Monday. ADVERTISING KEALAKEKUA — A Waimea woman employed by Adult Protective Services
KEALAKEKUA — A Waimea woman employed by Adult Protective Services who pleaded guilty to stealing money from a female client under her care is scheduled to be sentenced Monday.
Georgia Labrador entered her plea to second-degree theft on Feb. 4 in front of Judge Ronald Ibarra.
The indictment alleges she stole between $300 and $12,000 from a woman between Nov. 4, 2011 and Feb. 5, 2013.
She faces five years of prison, or four years of probation with up to a year in jail. The judge may also impose up to a $10,000 fine. Her attorney, deputy public defender Catherine Gibson, entered a motion for a deferred acceptance of a guilty plea. That will be considered at the sentencing hearing at 10 a.m. Monday.
Labrador was indicted on Nov. 10 by a grand jury and posted $2,000 bond on March 7.
The adult protective services program “provides crisis intervention, without regard to income, including investigation and emergency services for vulnerable adults who are reported to be abused, neglected or financially exploited by others or seriously endangered due to self-neglect,” according to the organization’s website.
This is not Labrador’s initial appearance in circuit court on financial issues, as she and her husband, Charles Labrador, had a combined five civil cases where companies demanded, and received, money owed.
In all five cases neither Labrador appeared in court and default judgments were entered, according to court records.
The cases against Georgia Labrador totalled $22,431.87, two of which involved garnishing her state wages.
The first case came from Capital One in 2011, where the company was granted $1,908.44.
The second case, filed in June 2012, included her husband as a co-defendant. It was filed by Springleaf Financial Services of Hawaii for $3,375.47. Her State of Hawaii wages were garnished, as of an order in August 2012.
The third was from Midland Funding for $17,147.96, an order entered in June 2012. An order to garnish her wages was entered in September 2012.
Charles had two cases of his own, one from Capital One that was granted in April 2010 for $857.53 and a second from Midland Funding on May 2011, for $7,416.51.
In total, the pair were sued for $30,705.91.
The state Department of Human Services didn’t respond Friday on whether Labrador was still employed there.
