Jennifer M. Mau looks toward her temporary defense attorney as her court hearing wraps up.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – A 36-year-old Morton woman was arrested yesterday, accused of creating a Facebook profile to make it appear her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend posted a threat.
Jennifer M. Mau was booked into the Lewis County Jail last night arrested for criminal impersonation and identity theft, however the charges filed today in Lewis County Superior Court were slightly different.
Judge James Lawler allowed her to be released on a $10,000 signature bond.
The information in charging papers gives the following account of what led to the arrest:
On Christmas Eve, an officer was dispatched to the 700 block of Main Avenue in Morton where Loren Hedge said Mau, his girlfriend, informed him Amber Osmanberg had put up a message on Facebook threatening Hedge and Mau.
The message included statements such as “Just wait till you are sleeping!!”; “You got nerves.”; “I’ll go to jail, I don’t care.”; and “I’ll get you when you least expect it.”
Osmanberg, 31, was the protected party in an order restraining Hedge and Mau from contacting her.
Morton police discovered two accounts for Osmanberg on Facebook, one which appeared to have been created earlier the same day.
Osmanberg denied the message and said she knew nothing about it.
Through a series of warrants served on Facebook, Verizon and Sprint, officers learned the second Facebook profile had been created using Internet Protocol addresses owned by Mau and associated with her cell phone.
When police spoke to Mau at her home yesterday, she denied creating the Facebook account and denied having an issue with Osmanberg.
Mau is charged with second-degree identity theft, a class C felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison. She is also charged with the gross misdemeanor of malicious prosecution.
Mau is a former a criminal justice student, best known in the past locally for her private endeavors to search for missing children in high profile cases. She was convicted of insurance fraud in 2010 in Lewis County Superior Court, but three years later the Washington State Supreme Court overturned her conviction.
The arraignment in her new case is scheduled for Feb. 25.
Defense attorney Joely O’Rourke told the judge this afternoon Mau is unemployed and qualified for a court-appointed lawyer.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
You know what is scary? The DOL in washington state gave this woman a bail recovery license! Knowing her though she wont have it very long. She will use it to do things she isn’t supposed to. Its very dangerous to think she has the power to put people behind bars, when she is the one who needs to be locked up.
What I wanna know is who the F is taken the pictures around here… You couldn’t trouble yourself to move, maybe not make an office chair the central theme… lmfao.
She is a waste of oxygen hope justice is finally served and she pays for all the horrible things she has put many different people throug, no amount of time behind bars would be enough, wish everyone could see how bad of a person that I know she truly is
If I was this hated ,I’d just kill myself . Something is seriously wrong with this chick .
I am very glad that the authorities finally caught on to her games. I must say couldn’t have happened to a better person. I am laughing all the way to the bank.
Justice has been served
I hope the police will publish papers that make it ez to turn in these trolls. I have a list of them that I’d love to start listing.
Haha ABHS finest, I’ve had to deal with this power tripping troll. She worked at a treatment center staff on duty, she would constantly belittle the patients. tell them to give up. Tell them that they are wasting there time that they might as well leave now because there going to use again anyway. Keep in mind these r patients of a drug treatment center and are there to change there life to be positive members in the community. Hopefully this new charge will stick, preventing her from acquiring another job that puts her in a position of power or influence over others. And hopefully Carma comes around and she gets treated by the corrections officer like she treated others .
Isn’t that what she did to the investigator she worked for in the past? Created an account in his name and sent herself harassing messages. Then sewed him for harassment. Not a new trick at all. Glad she got caught. She is dangerous.
Its funny how these Do Gooders keep getting busted. I think cops become cops just to be criminals. Makes you think twice about anyone with a Do Gooder title. For example all those jail gaurds in Georgia that just got busted.
I’ve got multiple fake accounts. So what?
This is what happens when you viciously troll. I hope more people who hide behind their computer phone or tablet screens get popped.
Haha!! Way to be sneaky, Jennifer!
Its about time!!!