Deputies say they’ve uncovered a scam run by Justin Sterling and a non-inmate co-worker of Alexandria. Brandon Wilkes is accused of checking out Sterling on weekends for odd jobs, but instead, deputies say, no work was done and Wilkes collected money for the transportation.
On February 15th, the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Work Release had an inmate walk off of a job sight of a private employer. 26-year-old Justin M. Sterling of Alexandria was employed as a day laborer and walked away from the job sight, but was later apprehended by RPSO and US Marshals Service on February 25th.
During the investigation, detectives uncovered a scam perpetrated by another person Sterling worked with, but did not involve the company.
24-year-old Brandon Wilkes of Alexandria and a civilian, worked with Sterling and would check Sterling out on the weekends as a drop-off laborer for odd jobs, allegedly for a fence company. However, Wilkes would drop Sterling off at other locations and then pick Sterling up later and return him to the Work Release Facility.
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