INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Gina Albrecht, who received a 30-year prison sentence in September after being convicted of aggravated manslaughter for the death of Indian River Shores resident George May, as well as of identity theft and forgery, appeared in court last week to plead guilty to two more felonies.
Albrecht, whose hands and feet were shackled, appeared before Judge Robert L. Pegg in a red jail jumpsuit last Thursday afternoon and pleaded guilty to making false statements to receive public aid, a third-degree felony, and to a second-degree felony of grand theft, for illegally receiving over $20,000 in public assistance, as a result of lying.
Pegg sentenced Albrecht to five years in prison, but the new sentence will run concurrently with her 30-year manslaughter sentence, which Albrecht will serve at one of five women’s correctional facilities in Florida – the closest being in Broward County about 110 miles to the south and the farthest being in the Panhandle about 300 miles to the northwest.
After the Dec. 10 sentencing, Albrecht’s attorney, Bobby Guttridge, said that Albrecht hoped to be moved from the Indian River County jail to a state correctional facility soon so that she could settle into life there and see her two daughters during visitation, as well as start working on her appeal against the 30-year sentence.
