Last week was a busy one on two floors of the Carroll County Courthouse with a full jail and a full courtroom, particularly on Thursday. One of those cases involved a habitual offender who was sentenced to serve time in prison for forgery and probation revocation. Forty-six-year-old Charisse Renea Collins of Carroll faced the judge in the Iowa District Court for Carroll County on her birthday, June 14, to be sentenced for a guilty plea to forgery, a class D felony. She was sentenced to up to five years in the women’s correctional institution in Mitchellville, to run consecutively with a probation revocation on a sentence of up to two years from a 2016 conviction. Collins was serving a two-year probation for three counts of theft in the third degree. In that case, Collins had reportedly taken liquor and food with a value under $200 on July 9, 2016. She plead guilty in that case in October of 2016 to receive the probationary sentence. Then, on April 30, 2017, Collins was arrested for passing two forged checks at the Carroll Walmart totaling more than $375. Collins has a long history of run ins with the law, as online court documents show she was arrested in 1994 and again in 1997 for theft in the fourth degree, in 2014 for third-degree theft and again earlier in 2016 for another fifth-degree theft charge. Fines and surcharges of more than $1,100 have been suspended.
