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A pretrial conference was held Tuesday in Fourth Judicial District Court for a Sheridan woman charged with 14 felonies. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.
During the pretrial conference hearing for Alisha Buszkiewic, District Court Judge Darci Phillips granted the State’s motion to continue the trial and schedule a new setting in the immediate future. A four-day jury trial was set to begin May 4, but Sheridan County Attorney Dianna Bennett filed the motion to continue because of a scheduling conflict with a key witness in the case. Buszkiewic agreed to waive her right to a speedy jury trial. Judge Phillips did not immediately set a new trial date, but said that one would be scheduled in either July or August, depending on the Court’s calendar.
Buszkiewic is charged with 11 counts of felony theft and three counts of felony forgery. The theft charges are from 2015 to 2025 when Buszkiewic, while she was bookkeeper with Western Transport, allegedly made unauthorized transfers of money belonging to Western Transport with the intent to deprive the owners of that money. The three forgery charges stem from three separate occasions, one in 2024, and two in early 2025, when Buszkiewic allegedly wrote checks using another person’s name. According to court documents, Buszkiewic made 281 unauthorized transfers between 2015 and 2025, totalling approximately $474,853. If convicted on all 14 counts, Buszkiewic faces up to 140 years in prison and fines of up to $140,000.
Also from Tuesday’s District Court Docket:
A Sheridan man changed his plea on a felony theft charge at a hearing Tuesday in Fourth Judicial District Court. Pursuant to the terms of a plea agreement reached between the defendant and the State, 23-year-old Brinden Reiff pleaded guilty to the charge of theft. In exchange for the guilty plea, the State agreed to dismiss an additional theft charge.
District Court Judge Darci Phillips ordered that an updated presentence investigation be completed by the Department of Corrections Division of Probation and Parole and scheduled sentencing for June 18 at 9 am. Reiff’s bond was revoked and he was remanded to the custody of the Sheridan County Detention Center pending sentencing.
According to court documents, Reiff was arrested in Sheridan on October 17 for being in possession of stolen items that were consistent with several reported burglaries in the Billings, MT area.
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