OKLAHOMA CITY – The 21st Multi-County Grand Jury approved a 12-count indictment against two Oklahoma City residents for a fraud scheme totaling almost $21,300 and spanning multiple counties.
Both defendants, Krysty Jean Scholes, 49, and Earl Wayne Salisbury, 47, have been convicted of multiple felony crimes over the last 14 years but received suspended prison sentences each time.
Scholes and Salisbury were indicted by the grand jury for allegedly passing fraudulent checks to obtain merchandise from numerous major retailers, including Walmart Supercenters in Yukon, Shawnee and Moore; Academy Sports + Outdoors in Norman and Oklahoma City; The Home Depot in northwest Oklahoma City; O’Reilly Auto Parts in Mustang and Newcastle; plus D&D Feed in Newalla, TH Rogers Lumber in Purcell and Pauls Valley, Hometown Hardware in Piedmont, Tuttle Country Store in Tuttle, Wheeler Brothers Grain Co. in Kingfisher, Banner Co-op in El Reno, H.I.S. Paint in Oklahoma City, Mattress King in Oklahoma City, Factory Direct Mattress in Edmond, and Classic Chevrolet in Oklahoma City.
Scholes is accused of using stolen driver’s licenses belonging to six women to impersonate them while passing the fraudulent checks.
The criminal activity spanned Oklahoma, Canadian, Cleveland, Pottawatomie, Garvin, Kingfisher, Grady, and McClain counties, and occurred between Sept. 18, 2023, and March 17, 2025, court records show.
The indictments were filed June 26 and resulted from an investigation by the state Attorney General’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force.
Salisbury and Scholes were indicted, individually or collectively, on two charges of obtaining property by false pretenses: two bogus check charges; one count of conspiracy to falsely impersonate another; four counts of false personation of another individual; four counts of fraudulently obtaining personal property of other persons; and one count of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses. Bond was set at $100,000 each.
Scholes and Salisbury also face a preliminary hearing conference July 31 in Oklahoma County District Court on felony charges of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia.
Those charges were filed March 26, and the case is being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s office.
Scholes and Salisbury both pleaded guilty in 2013 in Oklahoma County to six counts of forgery that were filed in 2011. Scholes received a fiveyear suspended prison sentence and was ordered to pay $4,727 in restitution. Salisbury received a seven-year suspended sentence, was ordered to pay $4,728 in restitution, and was given 100 hours of community service.
Both also pleaded guilty in 2013 in Oklahoma County to possession of methamphetamine. Salisbury received a 10-year suspended prison sentence but was ordered to spend 26 weekends in the Oklahoma County Jail. Scholes received a five-year suspended prison sentence.
In 2016 Salisbury and Scholes both pleaded guilty in Oklahoma County to obtaining property under false pretenses and second-degree forgery, and to previously filed charges of possession of methamphetamine.
Salisbury was given a 10-year suspended prison sentence but was ordered to spend 26 weekends in the Oklahoma County Jail; he also was ordered to pay $5,309 in restitution plus a $50 fine. Scholes, too, received a 10-year suspended prison sentence but was ordered to pay $916 in restitution and a $50 fine.
Scholes also pleaded guilty in 2016 to a forgery charge in Cleveland County District Court. She received a seven- year suspended prison sentence but was ordered to pay $715 in restitution.
Salisbury and Scholes both have also been sued several times for failure to pay their debts.