{Charleston , West
Virginia }…Meredith Collier has been sentenced to
1 to 3 years in prison. Collier was arrested in February and charged with
embezzling more that $50,000 over the span of six months while working as the
Director of Accounting at HealthNet. Charleston Police say Collier wrote
unauthorized checks for more than $1,000 for herself, friends and family
members. Meredith's husband, John Collier, was sentenced to six to 12 months in
prison, but that sentence was suspended, and Collier was put on probation. Tina
Vance, a friend who admitted to cashing checks Collier had written to her, was
sentenced to a year in prison, with six months suspended, and her husband, Mark
Vance, was sentenced to two years probation. All four must pay restitution.