FARMINGTON – A former employee of a northwestern New Mexico school district faces 18 months in prison after sentenced in a yearslong scheme to steal and resell thousands of Apple iPods intended for Native American children on the Navajo Nation.
Kristy Stock, 46, of Waterflow was sentenced Tuesday by a federal judge in Maryland after previously pleading guilty to interstate transportation of stolen goods and tax fraud, the Farmington Daily Times reported.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for Maryland, Stock from 2014 to 2019 stole up to 250 iPods at a time and provided them to co-defendants who bought the devices from Stock and resold them on eBay at a profit.
Stock worked for the Shiprock-headquartered Central Consolidated School District and oversaw use of federal grant money intended to be used to provide iPods to students, the office said in a statement.
