A Baker woman entrusted to keep the accounting records for a small, family-owned trucking company near Central spent five years stealing checks from the business and depositing them into her bank account.
Erin Jones siphoned off more than 400 checks payable to Bayou Transportation Services as part of an embezzlement scheme that netted her about $334,000 between May 2019 and April 2024.
It was a ploy that pitted Jones against the owners of her former employer, a couple she once shared a close friendship with. While being sentenced this week for a felony count of wire fraud, Jones told a federal judge that her crimes were motivated by a gambling habit that spiraled out of control…