{"id":381232,"date":"2026-06-30T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381232\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T21:53:07","slug":"ex-couple-sentenced-to-jail-in-sherwood-forest-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381232\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-couple sentenced to jail in Sherwood Forest fraud case\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The couple who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the late owner of Sherwood Forest Golf Club is headed to jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Conklin sentenced Justin Teel to three years in jail and Gina Abercrombie to one year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Flashback: A jury found Teel and Abercrombie guilty of stealing more than $700,000 from Randy Hansen, the late owner of Sherwood Forest in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Driving the news: Teel and Abercrombie, who had been engaged at one time, stole from Hansen\u2019s estate from 2017 to 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abercrombie is Hansen\u2019s stepdaughter. She and Teel took control of Hansen\u2019s business affairs after his wife, Deborah Hansen, passed away in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Hansen passed away in 2020, Teel and Abercrombie impersonated him and used his name on loan applications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They each had faced maximum sentences of five years and four months behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What they\u2019re saying: Hansen\u2019s daughter Stacy told ABC 30 that Abercrombie has threatened her from jail. Abercrombie allegedly said that she will make sure Hansen suffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What we\u2019re watching: After she serves her one year in jail, Abercrombie will face five years of probation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Teel will not remain on probation after he serves his sentence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zoom out: Teel has a prior record under the name Justin Linder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, he and five others were charged with making illegal real estate deals as part of a fraud scheme that totaled more than $11 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The couple who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the late owner of Sherwood Forest Golf Club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,7999],"class_list":["post-381232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-highlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}