Fox given 2-year

A former employee angry over being fired from her job will serve two years in prison for going on a spending spree with the company checkbook.

The defendant, Lisa Fox, was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to serve two years for three thefts perpetrated last year against her former employer TEFCO, Inc.

Her sentence comes after the court learned Fox has nine prior charges, many concerning worthless checks and thefts from Warren, Rutherford and Cannon counties leading prosecutors to label her a persistent offender.

According to court records, Fox cashed two checks belonging to the company and Dickie Morton in the amounts of $927 and $525. She forged the signature on the checks before passing them at Security Federal for cash. She then used a company credit card to buy a pre-paid phone in the amount of $231.

During her confession to lawmen, Fox said she was angry over being terminated from her job and took the checks and credit card when she went back to the office to pick up some personal items she had left. In addition to admitting the crime to lawmen, Fox had also admitted to the crime in messages left on her former employer’s phone asking if she could pay back the money.