EUGENE, Ore. — On March 10, 2026, a Lane County Circuit Court judge sentenced Melisa Ann Juline Jaragosky to 96 months in prison and 24 months of post-prison supervision for embezzling $642,000 from Harvey and Price Co., a mechanical services contractor based out of Eugene, the Lane County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday.
Jaragosky pled guilty to 14 counts of aggravated identity theft and seven counts of aggravated theft in the first degree in December 2025. At sentencing on March 10, the state argued that Jaragosky should receive a sentence of 142 months in prison and the defense argued for a lesser sentence.
Harvey and Price Co. hired Jaragosky as their accountant in 2018. According to the DA, shortly after she was hired Jaragosky began writing herself checks on Harvey and Price’s account and forging the signatures of her supervisor and owners of the business in order to cash the checks. She generated fraudulent invoices in order to hide some of her theft…