A State Grand Jury indicted 46-year-old Christy Conley, a former Quartzsite Police Department evidence technician, on charges related to stealing money that she was responsible for safeguarding as evidence. Conley is also accused of lighting a fire inside of the evidence room in an attempt to cover her tracks.
Conley is accused of stealing approximately $20,000 from the Quartzsite Police Department’s evidence safe. $13,000 of the $20,000 belonged to a deceased man’s estate. The remaining $7,000 was evidence impounded in drug trafficking cases.
Conley was arrested in Wisconsin on a Grand Jury warrant and will be extradited back to Arizona to face charges of Theft, Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices, and Tampering with Evidence, as well as a misdemeanor reckless burning charge related to the fire.