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Incident Number: 140016249 Nature: Fraud Incident Date: 01/21/15

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT 

DETECTIVE: Annette Scholl
DATE: 01/21/15
CASE: 14?16249

I have been working as a property crimes detective for the Federal Way Police
Department for seven years and am mainly working forgery, theft, financial
exploitation of elderly and identity theft cases. My total law enforcement
experience and training encompasses 15 years.

I was assigned this case and reviewed it. I gleaned from reading Officer
Lemmon?s report that suspect Rosemary Hibbler used to be the Program Manager for
Sober Solutions Transitional Housing Services LLC owned by Patricia and Vincent
Sewell.

Patrick Halligan, the Sewell's accountant assessed the finances and discovered
an alleged misappropriation of funds which involved Hibbler writing checks to
herself for above agreed upon amounts, writing checks to others and having them
cashed and withdrawing funds from the Program's Chase Bank account and
depositing the funds into a Wells Fargo account that was not associated with the
program.

In a signed, written statement, Patricia Sewell reported "Hibbler has access to
my accounts used it in my property management business."

The Sewells hired Hibbler in October 2013 as a contractor.

In her resume, Rosemary Hibbler described herself as an "Experienced Financial
Records Keeper." Additionally, in an ermail Hibbler stated that she used to
serve as the Treasurer for Tacoma Public School Headstart Family council.

The documents provided to police also contained copies of withdrawal slips with
the name ?Rosemary Hibbler" as the customer and what appeared to be her
signature at the bottom of each withdrawal slip. I noted that on 04/15/14
Hibbler was listed as the customer who withdrew $12,000 from the checking
account belonging to Sober Solutions. The withdrawal slip stated "If
Purchasing a Cashier's Check Provide Payee Name" and "Wells Fargo Bank? was

listed as the payee.

I located a Chase Bank withdrawal slip dated 04/19/14 with "Rosemary Hibbler"
listed as the customer and what appeared to be her signature affixed to the
slip. This was a withdrawal for $5,000 from Sober Solutions account 

The withdrawal slip stated "If Purchasing a Cashier?s Check Provide Payee Name"
and "Wells Fargo" was listed as the payee.

I located a Chase Bank withdrawal slip dated 04/09/14 with "Sober Solutions"
listed as the customer and what appeared to be Hibbler?s signature affixed to
the slip. This was a withdrawal for $1,500 from Sober Solutions account

The withdrawal slip stated ?If Purchasing a Cashier's Check Provide
Payee Name? and ?Wells Fargo" was listed as the payee.

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I located a Chase Bank withdrawal slip dated 04/08/14 with "Rosemary listed
as the customer and what appeared to be her signature affixed to the slip. This
was a withdrawal for $2,000_from Sober Solutions account The

withdrawal slip stated ?If Purchasing a Cashier's Check Provide Payee Name" and
"Wells Fargo Bank" was listed as the payee.

I located a Chase Bank withdrawal slip dated 04/24/14 with "Sober Solutions"
listed as the customer and what appeared to be Hibbler's signature affixed to
the slip. This was a withdrawal for $3,540 from Sober Solutions account
The withdrawal slip stated "If Purchasing a Cashier's Check Provide
Payee Name" and "Wells Fargo Bank" was listed as the payee.

I conducted a criminal history check on Hibbler and noted two prior felony theft
convictions on her record (Theft 1 and 2).

12/30/14
I obtained an audio taped statement from Patricia Sewell and Vincent Sewell. I

conducted the interviews separately. Both Vincent and Patricia reported that
Rosemary Hibbler was hired as a contractor and authorized $1,700 a month as
payment for her services. Both reported that they knew she was writing checks
against their Chase Bank business account and it was okay for Hibbler to write
checks. Both stated that any money made payable to Hibbler in excess of $1,700
in one month was not authorized.

Since I had obtained copies of checks made out to other people, I asked Vincent
about those checks. He informed me that Hibbler had hired Sober Solutions
residents to do some work for her and that those checks were authorized. As
such checks not made out to Rosemary Hibbler are not a part of this case.

During my interview with Patricia and Vincent Sewell it became clear that Sober

Solutions LLC had limited if any finanCial safeguards in place in terms of
Hibbler?s use of and leeway with the business' money.

After the interview, I e?mailed copies of the checks made out to Rosemary
Hibbler to Pat Sewell with the request to take them to Chase Bank and find out
where each check was cashed or deposited given that the money had come from the
Sewell?s business account.

Subsequently Pat Sewell eemailed me copies of three cashier's checks from Chase
Bank. Cashier's check number 1060908813 was dated 04/15/14 made out to Wells
Fargo Bank in the amount of $12,000. The back of this check was endorsed with a
signature that appeared to be that of Rosemary Hibbler.

01/08/15
I forwarded the Chase Bank cashier's check number 1060908813 ($12,000) to Mike
Barnes With Wells Fargo with the request to have it traced.

I met with the Sewell?s accountant, Patrick Halligan at the Federal Way Police
Department and obtained additional checks that spanned a time frame of May 2014
through December 2014. I perused the additional documents.

I located a Chase Bank withdrawal slip dated 05/01/14 that listed the customer
name as "Rosemary Hibbler" and listed what appeared to be her signature. The
withdrawal was for $2,500 from Sober Solutions account The withdrawal
slip stated "If Purchasing a Cashier's Check Provide Payee Name" and "Wells
Fargo Bank" was listed as the payee. I forwarded a copy of this withdrawal Slip
to the Sewells with the request for a copy of the associated check/mo.

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I located a Chase Bank withdrawal slip that was missing the date but the post
date (date when it was posted to the account) was 05/07/14. This withdrawal
slip listed the customer name as "Sober Solutions" and listed what appeared to
be Rosemary Hibbler?s signature. The amount was $4,000 and it was withdrawn
from Sober Solutions account The withdrawal slip stated "If Purchasing
a Cashier's Check Provide Payee Name" and ?Wells Fargo Bank" was listed as the 
payee- I forwarded a copy of this withdrawal slip to the Sewells with the
request for a copy of the associated cashier's check or money order.

01/15/15

I spoke with Chase Bank branch manager Ligaya Choo regarding the Chase Bank
cashier's checks. Ligaya informed that neither of the checks could be deposited
into a Chase Bank account since the payee was Wells Fargo. She informed me that
as such each of the checks would have a stamp on the back that said FOR
INTENDED I looked at the back of each of the cashier's checks and

they all said NOT FOR INTENDED PURPOSES. Ligaya referred me to her co?worker,
Rachel, who has been looking into the checks for the Sewells.

01/16/15

I forwarded copies of the cashier?s checks numbered 1060908813, 1060908776,
1060908780, 1060908844, 1032111818 and 1060908871 to the Chase Bank Fraud
Prevention team with the request for surveillance of the cashing of the checks.

01/20/15

I spoke with Rachel, employee at Chase Bank regarding the six cashier's checks
listed above. She confirmed that the money for each of them went back into the
Sober Solutions LLC account on or around the time that the cashier's checks were
purchased. As such the withdrawals for which I was able to obtain copies of
cashier?s checks from the Sewells did not consist of embezzled funds as Hibbler
did not use the money for her personal gain with the intend to deprive the
Sewell?s of the money.

With this in mind, my investigation subsequently focused on any overpayment that
exceeded $1,700 a month relative to Hibbler's salary. I added up the salary
amount that Hibbler should have been paid to Hibbler as her salary from January
2014 through November 2014 and I arrived at a total of $18,700. Unfortunately
Hibbler made out Sober Solution LLC checks payable to herself and the memo line
on a lot of those checks stated that the money was for utilities and such. I
have not been able to determine that Hibbler did not use the money as cash to
pay for utilities or other work related expenses- Additionally, Hibbler had free
reign of the company check book according to Pat and Vincent Sewell.

To determine whether Hibbler overpaid herself, I added up all the checks payable
to Hibbler together with a few cash withdrawals payable to Hibbler that either
contained the notation ?Rosemary account" or "salary" or "loan" or did not list
anything in the memo line- I arrived at a total of $13,855.04 (compare this
figure to $18,700).

This case appeared to be largely civil in nature and the lack of safeguards and
quality assurance hindered my ability to proof that Hibbler embezzled funds from

Sober Solutions LLC with the intend to deprive the business of the money. I
adVised PatriCia Sewell that according to Chase Bank, the above listed cashier's
checks funds had been returned to the Sober Solutions account. There were

additional cashier?s checks that were still outstanding and I had contacted
PatriCia Sewell with the request to provide me with copies of the outstanding

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cashier?s checks given that they were associated with funds from her business
account. Patricia Sewell subsequently e?mailed me and stated that Chase Bank
required a search warrant for the additional cashier's checks. I informed her

that I did not have probable cause to obtain a warrant at this point. The
Sewell's accountant, Patrick Halligan, also called me and told me that he has
urged the Sewells to establish quality assurance and safeguards relative to
their business practices for years unsuccessfully.

I contacted Rosemary Hibbler and scheduled an appointment to meet with her at
the Federal Way Police Department on 01/21/15 at 1400 hrs.

01/21/15
I met with Rosemary Hibbler at the Federal Way Police Department at 1400 hrs.
The interview was also attended by Detective Vollmer. We interviewed Hibbler in

the Twin Lakes room which is a conference room adjacent to the city hall lobby.
I informed Hibbler that she was not in custody and was free to leave at any
time.

I mirandized Hibbler. Hibbler stated that she understood her rights and wanted
to provide an audio taped statement. During the interview Hibbler informed us
that she was a co?signor on the Sober Solutions Transitional Housing Services
account I later contacted Ligaya Choo with Chase Bank and she
confirmed that Hibbler had full authority over the account and was a co?signor
for banking purposes.

I asked Hibbler about the large sum cash withdrawals ,the six cashier?s checks
and the numerous bank check drawn on account payable to Hibbler.
Hibbler informed us that she paid business expenses out of Chase account
which she was a co?signor on and sometimes this account did not have
enough money in it. For that reason she would oftentimes front the money out of
her personal Chase Bank account, hence the reason for so many Sober Solutions
Transitional Housing checks drawn on Chase Bank account payable to
Hibbler, because they were reimbursement checks for money Hibbler had fronted
out of her own pocket.

Relative to the withdrawal slips that listed Wells Fargo as the payee Hibbler
informed us that this was money that was supposed to go toward a Sober Solutions
mortgage loan for one of the properties. This loan was with Wells Fargo and the
Sewells wanted the loan payments in the form of cashier checks. When Hibbler
discovered that there was not enough money in the Sober Solutions account
after she had withdrawn the mortgage money, she refunded the cashier's
checks back into the Sober Solutions account. Hibbler told me that she felt it
was more important for utilities to be paid rather than the mortgage so that the
residents' water or electricity would not be shut off.

I asked her about the Comcast account that was thousands of dollars in the rears
according to the Sewells. Hibbler told us that cable was not as important as
water and electricity and that she paid water and electricity first before she
would pay the Comcast dues and that is why the Sewell's owed so much on the
Comcast bill.

Hibbler provided me with a document which listed her name as the Agent Name for
Sober Solutions Transitional Housing Nonprofit (which is separate from the LLC).
I researched the UBI number listed on this document (603395461) with the
Washington Department of Business Licensing and confirmed that Rosemary Hibbler
together with Rosa Remedios and Christopher Gomez (Hibbler's boyfriend) were
listed as the "Governing People." The "Entity Type? was listed as "Nonprofit

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Corporation" and the "Entity Name" was "Sober Solutions Transitional Housing."

I also researched the business license for ?Sober Solutions Transitional Housing
Services and found that the ?Governing People" was ?Vincent K. Sewell."
The 081 number for this business was 603061446.

Rosemary Hibbler was co?signer on the Sober Solutions LLC account and as such
had full authority as the program director to write checks and conduct all
banking relative to this account and as far as the LLC is concerned. As such
this case is civil in nature. In addition to that Hibbler is listed as one of
the governing people on the Sober Solutions Transitional Housing Nonprofit
portion of the business. I have not been able to develop probable cause that
a crime has been committed and I have advised the Sewells that this was not
prosecutable in criminal court-

I am closing this case "not a crime."
I CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

THAT ALL STATEMENTS MADE HEREIN ARE TRUE AND ACCURATE AND THAT I AM ENTERING MY
AUTHORIZED USER ID AND PASSWORD TO AUTHENTICATE IT (RCW 9A.72.085).

Electronically Signed: Yes Signature: Annette Scholl

Federal Way/King/Washington Date: 01/21/15

Incident Number: 140016249 Nature: Fraud Incident Date: 01/23/15
FOLLOW UP

FEDERAL WAY POLICE CASE NUMBER: 14*16249

On 01/23/15 I obtained the requested cashier?s checks surveillance photos from
Quentin Robbins with JP Morgan Chase Bank. The photos showed Rosemary Hibbler
conduct the cashier check transactions relative to cashier's check numbers
1060908813, 1060908776, 1060908780, 1060908844, 1032111818 and 1060908871.
Quentin Robbins also provide me with information pertaining to where each of the
checks was cashed, including check amounts and time and date of the
transactions. I have downloaded the surveillance photos and check information
into Spillman.

This case remains closed.

I CERTIFY UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
THAT ALL STATEMENTS MADE HEREIN ARE TRUE AND ACCURATE AND THAT I AM ENTERING MY
AUTHORIZED USER ID AND PASSWORD TO AUTHENTICATE IT (RCW 9A.72.085).
Electronically Signed: Yes Signature: Annette Scholl

Federal Way/King/Washington Date: 01/23/15

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