Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page A010

A10 TUCSON REGION Tuesday, November 29, 2011 ARIZONA DAILY STAR Toros, city settle; Hi Corbett cleared for UA Former Eegee's employee faces prison for embezzling $425K ARIZONA DAILY STAR The city agreed to pay the Tucson Toros $300,000 to settle a pending litigation with the team, which sued after the city ended its lease at Hi Corbett Field earlier this year. The settlement clears the way for the University of Arizona's baseball team to begin playing its games at the facility in 2012. The amount is equivalent of the first year's rental payment from the University of Arizona. The university will pay $262,000 in the subsequent years of a five-year lease. The university may renew the lease one time for an RADAR VAN LOCATIONS an enterprise and theft Monday.

Montano is facing between two and 8.75 years in prison on the enterprise count, but if she shows up for her sentencing hearing Jan. 9, she is guaranteed probation on the theft count. If she fails to attend the hearing, Judge Howard Fell can impose a prison sentence of between three and 12 V2 years on the theft count and run it consecutively to the other sentence. Assistant Arizona Attorney General Michael Jette said the theft was discovered while Miller Administration was in the process of buying Eegee's restaurants. Montano will be required to pay Eegee's $423,243 in restitution.

Contact reporter Kim Smith at 573-4241 or kimsmithazstarnet.com Montano explained that she would write in the books that her checks were going to a utility company and other companies. She then cashed the checks at a market that didn't require identification. Detectives discovered Montano and her husband bought a 2006 Chevrolet Corvette and 2007 Chevrolet Avalanche worth a combined $100,000 at the end of 2006, and although they made several late payments at the beginning of their loans, began making timely payments once she took the job at Eegee's. When Miller Administration officials called authorities, they knew they were missing a forensic auditor discovered more than $400,000 missing, court documents state. Montano pleaded guilty in Pima County Superior Court to illegal control of By Kim Smith ARIZONA DAILY STAR A former Eegee's employee is facing up to nine years in prison after admitting she embezzled nearly $425,000 from the company.

Amy Paulette Montano, 40, was indicted in June on seven felony charges including fraud, money laundering, illegal control of an enterprise and theft. Montano was the account manager for Miller Administration, which owns Eegee's, and was responsible for payroll checks and bills, according to court documents. In the fall of 2010, Montano admitted to the company president she had been writing checks to herself weekly for more than three years, despite the fact her paycheck was direct deposited, court records indicate. Hands-0n Music 19 3 Only I for The city's two police radar vans are scheduled to snap photographs of speeders at these locations today: 6 to 9 a.m. near Davidson Elementary School, on Alvernon Way near Kleindale Road; and near Menlo Park Elementary School, on Grande Avenue LAW ORDER BRIEFS Southeast-side crash kills woman, 23 A 22-year-old man is facing second-degree murder charges in the Monday traffic death of a woman.

Drugs or alcohol were determined to be a factor in the collision that occurred at about 12:40 p.m. in the intersection of East Escalante Road and South Camino Seco, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman. Kelly Huyser, 23, was driving a red 2002 Ford Focus north on Camino Seco when police said Kevin Ryan Millard ran a stop sign in a 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe and collided with Huyser's car. The victim was taken to a local hospital where she died.

A passenger in Huyser's car, a 48-year-old man, was treated for serious injuries but is expected to survive, Hawke said. Millard, who sustained minor injuries, was booked into the Pima County jail on one count each of second degree murder, aggravated assault and criminal dam other five years, but will have to pay an inflationary adjustment at that time. "The city of Tucson is excited to move forward with a long-term agreement with the University of Arizona and to bring collegiate baseball to our historic stadium," City Manager Richard Miranda said in a statement near Miles Exploratory Learning Center, in the 1400 block of East Broadway. 5 to 9 p.m. on Rosemont Boulevard between Pima Street and Grant Road; and on Stone Avenue between Fort Lowell and Roger roads.

Authorities say 21-year-old Carlos Dominic-Pino was arrested on suspicion of narcotics smuggling. Using a national fingerprint identification system, agents found Dominic-Pino had been convicted of armed robbery in Pima County in 2006. They say Dominic-Pino is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office on federal drug charges. The Associated Press Knife-wielding robber sought by police The Pima County Sheriff's Department is seeking the public's help in identifying a man who robbed a south-side Circle K.

Around 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 20, the man, armed with knife, walked into the Circle in the 3 8 0 0 block of South Country Club Road and threatened the clerk. He left with an undisclosed amount of cash. The man is described as being in his early to mid-40s, about 5 feet, 5 inches tall with a medium build.

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Between the nights of Nov. 24 and 26, Tucson police officers issued arrest citations to 51 people in Veinte de Agosto Park downtown. Not all of them would sign the citation, resulting in seven arrests over three days. Kimberly Matas Pot seizure leads to Tucson man's arrest U.S. Border Patrol agents say they've seized more than 550 pounds of marijuana near Douglas and also arrested a Tucson man.

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