Oklahoma City (CN) - Oklahoma couple has pleaded

Oklahoma City (CN) - Oklahoma couple has pleaded

guilty to conspiring to steal a military jet fuel that their company was under contract to supply the Air Force and is used in its fleet of trucks, federal prosecutors said in a written statement. Doyle Latimer, 55, owned by Latimer Trucking LLC, which is under contract to deliver fuel from the supply canada telegram depot in Oklahoma City and Vinnevood to Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas and Altus Air Force bases and tinker canada telegram in Oklahoma. His wife, Cynthia Latimer, 57, is the company accountant. The Latimers each pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Each faces up to five years in federal prison, mandatory canada telegram restitution and a fine of $ 250,000. Doyle Latimer admitted that from 2001 to 2007, he stole the fuel so that the draining of the tank and use it to run their trucks, according to court documents. He admitted that he knew his wife was creating false accounts for the fuel to be covered up. Cynthia Latimer admitted to preparing false certificates fuel, which appeared to document the legitimate purchase of diesel fuel for trucks the company when, in fact, there was no purchase of diesel fuel. Prosecutors say they have been able to reduce costs Latimers their daily work with the truck theft. Sentencing hearing will be set by the court in about 90 days.
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