PHOENIX — Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Wednesday announced that two people each pleaded guilty to felonies after being charged with working together to receive more than $110,000 in fraudulent education voucher money while living in Colorado and creating “ghost” children who didn’t exist.
Mayes said Johnny Bowers pleaded guilty to fraudulent schemes and artifices, a Class 2 felony, and forgery, a Class 4 felony, in Maricopa County Superior Court on Tuesday.
His co-defendant, Ashley Hewitt, who also goes by Ashley Hopkins, pleaded guilty to fraudulent schemes and artifices, a Class 2 felony, on Aug. 5, according to the attorney general…