Man who bought laptop with pilfered card gets probation

A Sunridge man who charged around $10,000 to an unemployment benefit card received in the mail for a former roommate received a suspended 1-4-year prison term on Monday.

Marc Glen Chapple, 30, was ordered to pay $400 a month in restitution. He brought $300 to court with him.

“This was a bad time in my life and I’m not proud of the decisions I made. I’m mad at what I did, but I’m not mad I got caught,” he said. “It gave me the wakeup call that I needed. I’m deeply sorry to the victim, I don’t know what I put her through, but I want to make it right.”

Chapple purchased a laptop and a cell phone with the card and purchased protection plans filling out the forms using his own contact information.

In sentencing Chapple, District Judge Tom Gregory said this wasn’t the first time he’d been in trouble for stealing.

“All this stuff you’ve said about you wanting to be a good person for your son, means paying everything back, having a job and not doing drugs,” Gregory said. “Restitution is the reason you are not going to prison. I don’t want this to be one of those cases where we get to the end of the probation and restitution has not been paid.”

Chapple admitted to counts of principal to burglary and fraudulent use of a credit card in October.

• Prosecutors showed video of a man hitting a woman twice, knocking her to the ground during a drunken fight at a Stateline hotel.

Adriel Noriega, 36, was sentenced to 364 days in jail after he admitted gross misdemeanor attempting to intimidate a deputy during his domestic battery arrest.

Noriega is serving another sentence on the battery. According to jail records, Noriega’s release date is Oct. 4.

• A woman who was involved in two hit-and-run collisions in July admitted to child endangerment on Monday.

Sara Rodriguez-Tegerdal, 37, will have to undergo an evaluation before she is sentenced on Jan. 17. The charge could be treated as a gross misdemeanor.

Rodriguez-Tegerdal was intoxicated when she was arrested July 9 after the two collisions in the Gardnerville Ranchos.

• A 38-year-old woman admitted to a count of child endangerment after she was arrested for driving under the influence with her children in the car.

Shalyn Nichole Lewallen faces a Jan. 24 sentencing on a gross misdemeanor.

She had a blood alcohol content of .25 when she was arrested.

She denied her 6-year-old wasn’t in a child restraint and that that she hit her teenage son with the door.

“I take full responsibility for driving under the influence with my children in the vehicle, but my youngest was in a restraint and I did not push my oldest,” said Lewallen.