Serial thief Kelli Lynn Silor has accepted a 25-year prison sentence in an arrangement with prosecutors that stands to add another 10 years to her sentence if she doesn't repay more than $22,000 she stole from two employers.
Silor, who turned 50 while awaiting trial in jail, has pleaded guilty to felony theft and three counts of forgery for stealing the money from Parker Cadillac in Little Rock and Maumelle dentist Richard Lewis.
With credit for the time she's spent in jail, the Bryant woman can qualify for parole in 38 months, just a little more than three years.
Under the conditions of her plea agreement, negotiated by defense attorney Mark Jesse, Silor's prison time will be followed by a 10-year suspended sentence on the condition that she repays her victims, $16,000 to the car dealership and $6,049 to Lewis.
In accepting the plea, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims said he wanted Silor to have the possibility of being returned to prison hanging over her head to encourage her to pay her restitution.
The married mother of four has been jailed since February on the judge's orders after prosecutors told him that Silor had been stealing from the car dealership after she was released on her own recognizance after pleading guilty in the theft from the dentist.
Silor had been a receptionist and cashier for the Maumelle dentist when she forged and altered checks to steal money between April 25, 2014, and June 9, 2014, court records show.
Thursday, deputy prosecutor Kelly Ward told the judge that while Silor worked as office manager for Parker Cadillac, she took money by forging checks between April 6, 2015, and Jan. 5.
Police reports show she was fired that day after the dealership learned she had used a fake name to conceal her criminal record from a background check.
Police reports list 22 aliases for Silor, many of them variations on the spelling of her name or involving her maiden name, Keyser. They include Kelli McKee, Kim Keysen and Kelli Chasse and variations on those names.
Police were told the dealership theft was discovered when an audit showed in January that she had been shorting cash deposits for at least the previous six months.
Detectives had estimated the amounts she'd stolen as much higher, with police testimony in April that forensic audits showed she'd taken more than $75,000 from Parker Cadillac and $31,000 from the dentist.
Silor's attorney told the judge there's still a possibility of civil litigation over the differences between the amounts reported stolen and the amount Silor has agreed to repay.
At an April hearing, her husband of 19 years, James Silor, testified that if his wife had been stealing money, he had never seen any of it.
In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors dropped felony-theft and forgery charges related to Silor's employment with RSVP Catering in Maumelle, where she was accused of stealing $8,465 between February and April of 2013. The allegations didn't come to light until January, court filings show.
Prosecutors also withdrew a felony-theft charge in the theft from the dentist in exchange for Silor's guilty plea.
Court records show that prosecutors in Van Buren County have moved to revoke her 10-year suspended prison sentence on a felony-theft conviction there for failing to pay restitution for stealing from Payton Dodge Chrysler Jeep in Clinton. Prosecutors reported that she owed $12,056 as of April.
That amount was down from the $15,306 she was reported to have owed in January 2012, court filings show. In October 2012, she had promised to pay the money back at $300 a month, an amount that was reduced to $200 in December 2014, court filings show.
In October 2008, Silor was sentenced to three years in prison with another 10 years suspended for stealing $14,776 from Payton Dodge by forging checks on the company's account and on charges of defrauding secured creditors in Faulkner County. The Faulkner County case required her to pay $50,046 in restitution, court records show.
She also has convictions for felony hot-check writing from Faulkner County in 2008, Searcy County in 2002 and Van Buren County in 2001 and 2002. She also had seven misdemeanor hot-check convictions between 2000 and 2001 in Greenbrier.
Metro on 09/24/2016