BRIEFLY : EX-SHERIFF'S CLERK GUILTY IN THEFT CASE.VENTURA - A former sheriff's booking clerk caught in a sting operation Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing public money and could face four months in jail. William Harvey Campbell, 66, changed his plea from not guilty after Superior Court Judge Roland Purnell agreed to limit the jail sentence jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison to a maximum of 120 days, officials said. Sentencing is set for Jan. 8. After a January 1997 audit discovered money missing from the Ventura County Sheriff's Department's property room, detectives booked in property and $47 cash in a sting operation. Campbell, a part-time civilian employee from Ventura, was seen taking the money and was charged with one count of felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. theft of public funds See Fund, 3. See also: Public and misdemeanor petty theft. - Daily News |
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