WHAT A HEEL: Insult To Injury
Alicia E. Tolton, 27, was sentenced to 11½-to-23-months in county jail for theft by deception, forgery and tampering with records for pretending she had breast and ovarian cancer and bilking family, friends, co-workers and businesses in Pottstown, PA, out of money she said she needed for treatment. Less than a week after being released to serve out her three-year probation, she landed in jail again – this time, for harassing one of her former friends who had testified against her, The
phillyBurbs.com (Levittown, PA) reports:
“This is the quickest probation violation I’ve ever seen,” said the judge. “It sets a world record.”
Tolton … was back in jail just six days after being freed on July 26.
She admitted making two calls, one to Dawn Argue and the other to Colleen Harp, from a phone at a rehab center in Delaware County, where she was in treatment.
Dressed in a gray shirt and handcuffed, Tolton sat quietly while Harp, 27, of Huntingdon Valley, told the court she was in the emergency room of Abington Memorial Hospital after being involved in a car accident when her cell phone rang on July 30. Not recognizing the number, she did not answer, Harp said.
When she later listened to her voicemail, she heard Tolton’s voice cursing at her and Argue, a Pottstown woman who testified against Tolton. …
“I was pretty upset she had the nerve to call me after all she’d put me through,” Harp said. …
If found guilty of the harassment charge, Griffith said, Tolton could face another year in prison and a $2,500 fine.
Argue and Harp had organized a fundraiser on Tolton’s behalf, “Wishes for Alicia,” and made restitution to donors from their own pockets when the benefit was cancelled a week before it was to occur because Tolton had been arrested. At her trial, they testified that they felt humiliated when Tolton’s scam was publicized by national and local news organizations.
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