CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / SANTA ANA
A man who lived in Rancho Santa Margarita and is serving a sentence for embezzlement is scheduled to be arraigned today on charges that he married two women who did not know about each other and then stole from them, authorities said Thursday.
Craig Stevens, 49, was sentenced to one year and four months in state prison last October for stealing $147,000 from his Costa Mesa employer. He is accused of marrying an Illinois resident in August 2007 without his first wife’s knowledge.
Prosecutors say he used his first wife’s property inheritance to pay the restitution he was ordered to pay in the theft case.
He also persuaded his second wife to give him $47,000 for his daughter’s college tuition even though he does not have a daughter who attends college, prosecutors allege.
-- Ari B. Bloomekatz
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