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Pizza and smoothies? Harnett woman charged with online fraud
A southwest Harnett County woman faces 18 felonies related to ordering food online with someone else's card.
Kiersten Amber Wethington, 31, of the 80 block of Treetops Road in Johnsonville, west of Carolina Lakes Golf Course, was arrested June 6 and held in the Harnett County Jail on a $30,000 secured bond.
Wethington allegedly ordered food items from Marco's Pizza seven times between June 22 and July 24, 2024 totaling $509 and from Tropical Smoothie Cafe 11 times from July 1 and Sept. 20, 2024 totaling $863.
She is also charged with two misdemeanors for larceny and shoplifting in Hoke County stemming from Oct. 6, 2023. Wethington failed to appear in court twice in relation to those charges. Her June 6 arrest included a warrant for failure to appear.
She was charged with misdemeanor simple assault in Harnett County stemming from May 18, 2021, but the case was dismissed with the note, 'parties agree,' according to eCourts.
She was arrested by the Fayetteville Police Department stemming from June 23, 2020 on a misdemeanor charge of larceny by employee. The charge was dismissed because restitution was paid in full, according to eCourts.
She was charged with misdemeanor simple assault stemming from Feb. 16, 2018 in Cumberland County. The charge was dismissed due to the 5th Amendment right against self incrimination claimed by Dylan Richard Wethington, according to eCourts, which is a right afforded a spouse.
Dylan Wethington has had four charges against him dismissed for assault on a female, simple assault and a protective order from 2018 and 2019 because the prosecuting witness did not appear, according to eCourts.
He filed for divorce in Scotland County, which was granted on Oct. 30, 2023.
The couple were married for 10 years and had four children. They had been separated since December 2019, according to eCourts.
