Judge sentences woman who scammed Rocky Mountain resorts

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BILLINGS, Mont. - A Billings woman who with her husband used stolen credit card numbers to stay at resorts throughout the Rocky Mountains and to buy high-end clothes and jewelry was sentenced Wednesday to more than six years in prison.

District Judge Richard Cebull sentenced Jennifer Kay Tucker, 39, to six years and three months in prison - 51 months for wire fraud and a mandatory consecutive two years for aggravated identify theft. She also was ordered to pay $39,634 in restitution.

Tucker, who pleaded guilty to the charges in July, apologized at the sentencing hearing, saying her husband made her call him "Daddy" and that he put methamphetamine in her food.

"He was so powerful," she said.

In June, Cebull sentenced her husband, Jesse G. Tucker, of Texarkana, Texas, to 13 years and five months in prison for wire fraud and identity theft and ordered him to pay $111,683 in restitution. The amount included about $72,000 for the cost of cleaning a room at the Rock Creek Resort in Red Lodge, Mont., where the couple stayed and cooked methamphetamine.

The Tuckers were arrested near Joliet, Mont., in February 2005 after leading authorities on a high-speed chase. They had drugs, drug-making equipment and more than 1,500 stolen credit card numbers and names fished from the trash.

Prosecutors said that from October 2004 until their arrest, the Tuckers used stolen credit card information to stay at hotels and resorts in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Montana.

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