(TULSA) - A Mannford woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to scamming more than $31,000 from the government in federal disaster payments.
Prosecutors say 42-year-old Kerry Lynn Rowell appeared in U.S. District Court in Tulsa on Friday.
Rowell admitted receiving about $31,400 from the Federal Emergency Disaster Agency in money that was available to victims of wildfires in the Mannford area in 2013.
Rowell faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Prosecutors say Rowell claimed that a home destroyed by the fire was her primary residence - but that the home was unoccupied, dilapidated and had no utility service at the time of the fire.
She's scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 12.