WICHITA, Kan. – A 41-year-old Hutchinson woman was sentenced to three years on supervised release and ordered to pay more than $19,000 in restitution for filing false tax returns and violating a federal law prohibiting her from having a gun.
Rhonda J. Simmons pleaded guilty to one count of presenting a false tax claim and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm after a felony conviction.
In her plea, she admitted that on April 15, 2012, she prepared a false income tax return seeking a refund of $3,014.
On Aug. 14, 2012, the Hutchinson Police Department executed a search warrant on the residence where she was living here in Hutchinson. They seized a 20-gauge shotgun belonging to Simmons. She was prohibited from possessing a firearm because she had been convicted of a felony in 2007 in Georgia.