JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Arrested for grand theft by check fraud. That's the crime that the director of group sales for the Jacksonville Suns is now facing after being arrested just last week.
According to a recently released report from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, 36-year-old January Putt was arrested last Thursday.
Putt confessed to depositing several checks made out to the Suns organization into her own account but has since bonded out of jail.
The report said that Putt worked as the director of group sales for 6 seasons during which she was having sponsors make their checks out to the organization and herself.
"There are a lot of starving lawyers and I just liked, I liked law school and the legal field a little bit, but I really love baseball and doing this," Putt said.
Those were the words of Putt when she spoke to News4Jax at the end of May in 2014. Police said that just days before that interview was when Putt committed the fraud.
According to the report in May of 2014, Putt received a partial sponsorship check from Pavilion Plaza Pharmacy for nearly $2,400.
Police said Putt got the business to make the check out to the Suns and herself, then used something to remove the Jacksonville Suns name from the check and deposited it into her personal account.
The report also said that Putt confessed to committing the same act at least three other times and possibly more.
Now the woman who received a law degree from Mississippi College and passed the bar exam in four states finds herself facing jail time.