Law & Crime
A Washington state attorney is facing criminal charges after she allegedly forged a legal document to keep her client out of jail.
Josephine C. Townsend is charged with two counts of forgery and could be sentenced to 90 days in jail and a $5,000 fine, the Washington Attorney General’s Office said in a press release. The AG’s office laid out its case against the 64-year-old Townsend in a 27-page probable cause arrest affidavit. It revolves around one of Townsend’s clients, a man named Travon Santiago, who was arrested in December 2023 by the Vancouver Police Department for an alleged assault. Among the conditions for Santiago’s release was for him to stay more than 1,000 feet from the victim’s home.
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