Woman with Lunenburg, Charlotte Ties Convicted

LUNENBURG – Akeema Unique Culbreath, a 39-year-old woman with ties to the counties of Lunenburg, Charlotte, Campbell, Bedford and City of Columbia, S.C., received a year in jail in Lunenburg Circuit Court for violating her probation by absconding from Virginia to South Carolina.

According to Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Clement, Culbreath fought extradition from South Carolina, but Clement pursued the extradition process through the Governor’s Office and had her returned to face trial. The hearing lasted more than an hour during which Culbreath offered numerous excuses for her failure to comply, but was contradicted on cross-examination, said Clement.  The judge expressed, as argued by Clement, that she was not credible. Clement said he may pursue a Perjury charge against her.

Culbreath also did not report to jail after being sentenced in Campbell County on a conviction of Forgery and allowed a delayed reporting date in 2015.

Culbreath was convicted in 2014 in Lunenburg of Conspiracy to Commit Forgery and Uttering a Forge Check for her part in a scheme to forge and cash a fake payroll check. The same scheme was attempted on or about the same day in Charlotte County and Campbell County.  Culbreath was also convicted in Campbell County for Identity Theft in 2014.

Culbreath also was found guilty two days later on November 7, 2018 in Charlotte County Circuit Court for violating good behavior, where one year of her nine-year suspended sentence was revoked, but allowed to run concurrently (same time as) with the Lunenburg sentence.

The Lunenburg incident in 2014 occurred at the Food Lion Store in Victoria.  A man and two women, including Culbreath worked together to attempt to cash what looked like a payroll check from a Farmville business, said Clement.  The clerk felt something was not right about the check and took it to her assistant manager. He recalled an email sent out by Food Lion of fake payroll checks being passed in Bedford .  The Victoria police were called, and arrived quickly.  By that time, Culbreath, who was driving the car, had come inside looking for the two, but pretended not to know them.

Police were able to ascertain from the other man and woman that they had given their personal information to Culbreath, and that she had obtained the checks in their names.  The man said he kept $100 of the check cashed in Charlotte, and the other woman said she was to get about $70 of the $488.  The rest would go to Culbreath.

In addition to the one-year sentence, the defendant will be still be subject to conditions of good behavior for 10 years, supervised probation for two years, reimbursement of the extradition costs, and warrantless searches.