Last Updated on February 7, 2017 by CCAR Staff
A former parole agent was sentenced to 90 days in jail Monday for embezzling funds from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation so he could buy prescription drugs from a parolee.
Scott Patric Keblis, 50, of Chino pleaded guilty to one felony count of embezzlement by a public employee and one misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors said Keblis, while a state parole agent, in 2015 obtained two bus passes and two $40 Target gift cards from the agency, claiming he needed to give them to a parolee under his supervision.
Instead, prosecutors said, Keblis went to meet with a parolee who was not under his supervision in Huntington Beach and exchanged the bus passes, gift cards and $30 of his own money for two dozen of the parolee’s prescription hydrocodone pills.
Keblis was arrested by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s internal affairs division.
