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FL - PSL woman (Carol Merrilee Wands) gets seven years for trying to extort convicted
sex offender
Original Article
08/02/2010
FORT PIERCE — A 47-year-old Port St. Lucie woman convicted of trying to extort $33,000
and a 2003 Cadillac DeVille from a convicted sex offender was sentenced last week to seven
years in prison.
Carol Merrilee Wands faced up to 15 years behind bars for the second-degree felony conviction
when she was sentenced Thursday by Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman.
During a one-day trial in June, a 41-year-old man who had pleaded no contest in 2005 to
a charge of lewd or lascivious battery for inappropriately touching a teenage girl testified
that after a lunch date with Wands, she demanded 33 payments of $1,000 and the title to his
Cadillac or she would report to his probation officer that he forced himself on her.
The man went to authorities instead, and a transaction in which he gave the car to Wands
was videotaped.