County Worker Gets 4 Years for Credit Scam

A Sheriff’s Department employee was sentenced Tuesday to four years in state prison for his part in a credit card scam.

Christopher Coleman, 35, of Los Angeles was the final defendant in the so-called “Easy Money� credit card theft case involving former sheriff’s custody assistants and others. The case against one other defendant was dismissed; the others have pleaded and been sentenced.

The indictment alleged that Coleman and others received credit cards in other people’s names and used them to withdraw cash from ATMs.

Coleman also was ordered to repay $41,516.