Guilty former CPS worker had previous theft conviction

Guilty former CPS worker had previous theft conviction
November 23, 2010 11:46:00 PM
By Ryan McCarthy/Appeal-Democrat
 
A former Yuba County employee convicted this month of bribery and extortion was disciplined in 2008 for preparing false timesheets and mileage as a Child Protective Services worker, arrested in 2003 for check fraud in Florida and convicted in 1990 of grand theft in Los Angeles County.

Yolanda Perez Fryson

Yolanda Fryson, 43, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on the bribery, extortion and other felonies she was found guilty of this month in Placer County Superior Court. 

A sentencing memorandum, filed by the Placer County district attorney and seeking a maximum 20-year sentence for Fryson, details the earlier disciplinary action and her previous arrest and conviction. 

"According to her former supervisor at Yuba County, she is known to be an untrustworthy person," wrote Stephanie Macumber, deputy district attorney.
Fryson was on administrative leave from her Yuba County job for separate allegations of passing checks with insufficient funds in Placer County when sheriff's deputies arrested her two years ago in a Starbucks parking lot near her home in Rocklin. 

She had falsely told a Roseville man he was the subject of a file she possessed involving child molestation allegations — and hinted how she could make the case disappear. The man contacted Yuba County officials, who in turn alerted the Placer County Sheriff's Department. In an undercover law enforcement operation, the man was given $10,000 that an officer saw Fryson accept on Oct. 30, 2008. 

The sentencing memo states that Fryson had agreed to take the money in exchange for destroying the file — which did not exist. After her 2003 arrest in Florida for check fraud, the sentencing memorandum notes that Fryson filed a declaration that she was the victim of identify theft and innocent of the charges. 

The felonies Fryson will sentenced for Monday include check fraud in 2008 in Placer County as well as a conviction for false evidence involving Fryson "cutting and pasting" a letter claiming a bank error caused the bounced checks, the sentencing memo notes. A document expert testified the letter, purportedly signed by a Bank of America employee, was a fake, according to the memo. 

Justin Mixon, the defense attorney representing Fryson, could not be reached for comment.
Russ Brown, Yuba County spokesman, said the county is unable to comment on the sentencing memorandum. 

"The information in the case overlaps deeply into another case that involves Yuba County," Brown said. (Probably a LOT more cases.)
 
Roseville resident Christopher Lindsay, whom Fryson falsely told was the subject of a file involving child molestation allegations, has filed a lawsuit in federal court against her and Yuba County. 

Lindsay "knew that he was innocent but here was a county worker from Yuba CPS," he recounts in his lawsuit, "alleging these horrible things."
 
Child Protective Services failed to adequately supervise Fryson, according to the suit.
 
Any questions about the sort of people who are CPS agents?  Also notice that you are really innocent only if the lid blows off the CPS agent's lying dirty deeds.