Crime and courts briefs

FREEPORTVillage cashier sentenced

A former cashier for Freeport Village was sentenced yesterday to 3 years of probation and 300 hours of community service for stealing residents' utility payments, the Nassau district attorney's office said.

Chevelle Dubois, 37, of Freeport, will also have to repay $13,362 as part of her April guilty plea to defrauding the government, a misdemeanor, prosecutors said.

Between January 2012 and June 2013, Dubois entered residents' cash payments into the village computer system, then changed entries to say refunds had been made to the residents, prosecutors said.

She took the money, then repaid accounts she had stolen from the day before, a scheme that was discovered in May 2013 when a resident with a default notice showed payment receipts, prosecutors said. She was fired in June 2013, when she was short more than $13,000.

"She never intentionally took anyone's money, and no one had their utilities terminated," said her attorney, Karl C. Seman of Garden City. He said Dubois' cash drawer was used by other cashiers and she has repaid shortages by using her rent funds and borrowing money to pay back the village.

"As a result of this, she now lives in a homeless shelter," Seman said, "and she has two children to support . . . she's paid back $9,000."

UNIONDALE25 years in prison for death

A Uniondale man was sentenced yesterday to 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a former roommate who interceded in a disagreement about money.

Jonathan Mack, 20, was found guilty by a jury in August on all counts, including second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, Nassau County prosecutors said.

Nassau County Court Judge George Peck sentenced Mack for fatally shooting Isaac Andrews, 34, on June 30, 2013, near a Uniondale church on Hill Street where parishioners gathered for Sunday services.

Prosecutors said during the trial that Mack was arguing with a woman about money when the woman's fiance, Andrews, stepped in. Mack shot Andrews at least four times. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, prosecutors said. Mack was found in Florida, arrested by the Nassau County Police Department and returned to New York for prosecution.