Alicia Campbell
A Mays Landing woman admitted to stealing from a senior living community and then claiming her child had cancer in order to continually delay her court dates.
Alicia Campbell, 37, remains free pending sentencing on charges of theft and obstruction of justice.
While serving as livestyle director at Greenbriar Oceanaire Community and Golf Course in Ocean Township, she was supposed to spend funds on entertainment, events and items for the senior community.
Instead, she spent more than $81,000 worth of items for herself between January 2019 and January 2022. Campbell also is accused of using the digital money app Venmo to send more than $94,000 to third parties from the association's accounts, only to have them immediately sent to her own account.
She will have to make restitution on about $147,000, according to the plea agreement.
Campbell first was charged in March 2023, and released on a summons, meaning she did not see the inside of a cell.
She was indicted Jan. 3, 2024, and pleaded not guilty at her arraignment a month later.
That April, the lies started.
She claimed her minor child was undergoing treatment for leukemia in Philadelphia, leading to several adjournments of the case.
The treatments were not successful, she told the court that summer. As a result, the child needed to be transferred to the Texas Children’s Hospital for imminent and urgent care.
She submitted documentation to the court, claiming it was from the doctors treating her child.
Then, in August, Campbell once again asked for an adjournment, claiming her child was still receiving care in Texas.
She submitted a document on letterhead that was purportedly from the Leukemia Program at the Texas Children’s Hospital. It detailed her child’s condition and treatment regimen, Nolan said.
But there was one problem: Personnel at the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office noticed the hospital's address was wrong, and there was no additional contact information for the doctor who allegedly authored the letter.
An investigation by detectives from the Prosecutor’s Office Economic Crimes Squad found that not only was the letter a forgery, Campbell's child never received care there, according to the charges.In fact, Campbell never met anyone at the hospital.
She was arrested and jailed briefly before she was released.
Campbell has a slight criminal history, BreakingAC has found. In 2008, she had a theft by deception case that was sent back to municipal court. That arrest was under her maiden name, Alicia Cornelius. The outcome of that was not available.
She is due back in court for sentencing Sept. 5, when she faces six years in prison for the theft and 18 months for the obstruction.
