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Dannille Vanderpool coverage
September 18th, 2009
Broken law, broken trustDannille Vanderpool was in Napa County Superior Court Thursday because she had admitted to breaking the law.
Victims of cancer fraud speak out at sentencingA former Napa Police Department dispatcher who took thousands of dollars in donations while claiming to have cancer was led to jail in handcuffs Thursday morning following an emotionally-charged hearing where she was sentenced to 6 months in jail and restitution.
September 17th, 2009
Video: Dispatcher sentencedA former Napa police dispatcher who faked having cancer and who received some $50,000 in donations was sentenced Thursday morning to six months in the county jail.
Dispatcher who faked cancer gets 6 months in jailFormer Napa police dispatcher Dannille Vanderpool was sentenced to 179 days in jail and five years of probation today for bilking friends and law enforcement benevolent associations of tens of thousands of dollars.
July 31st, 2009
The end of the scamDannille Vanderpool spoke a very difficult truth on Thursday. “Guilty, your honor,” she said to Napa County Superior Court Judge Francisca Tisher.
Guilty plea from dispatcher who faked cancer claimDannille Vanderpool, a former Napa Police Dispatcher of the Year, pleaded guilty Friday morning to a single count of grand theft, admitting she took donations from colleagues after falsely claiming to have cancer.
July 30th, 2009
Guilty plea from dispatcher who faked cancer claimDannille Vanderpool, a former Napa police Dispatcher of the Year, pleaded guilty this morning to a single count of grand theft, admitting she took donations for a faked cancer.
May 28th, 2009
Ex-police dispatcher's fraud case delayedThe preliminary hearing for a former Napa police dispatcher accused of grand theft while faking a claim that she was dying of cancer has been delayed until late July.
May 17th, 2009
Excerpts from the Web diary of Dannille VanderpoolDannille Vanderpool kept family, friends and those who donated money to help her battle cancer up-to-date on her fight through a page on the social networking Web site MySpace. In the wake of her arrest, Napa police say she has confessed that she does not suffer from cancer. Her are some excerpts from her online diary:
Helping a friend in need — or so they thoughtThey all have close ties to local law enforcement, but those aren’t the ties that bound this group of people together for the past two years. Instead, they came together to help Dannille Vanderpool, a friend and Napa police dispatcher they all believed was soon to lose her life to a virulent form of ovarian cancer.
April 19th, 2009
A sick feelingIt’s incredible to think that a law enforcement worker might have lied to scores of police officers and firefighters by claiming to have cancer, eliciting sympathy and money and even putting together a false chronicle of her medical odyssey.
April 18th, 2009
Police: Ex-dispatcher admits lying about having cancerThe ex-Napa police dispatcher accused of fraud reportedly admitted to police investigators she lied about having ovarian cancer and used that lie to obtain slightly more than $50,000 in donations and city pay.
April 17th, 2009
Police: Ex-dispatcher admits lying about having cancerThe ex-Napa police dispatcher accused of fraud reportedly admitted to police investigators she lied about having ovarian cancer and used that lie to obtain slightly more than $50,000 in donations and city pay.
April 16th, 2009
Ex-dispatcher accused of fraud in custodyThe ex-Napa police dispatcher accused of collecting $50,000 in donations by faking claims she suffers from ovarian cancer turned herself in Thursday afternoon and is in custody.
April 15th, 2009
Faking it?A former Napa police dispatcher is accused of conning friends, coworkers and residents out of more than $50,000 by falsely claiming she had ovarian cancer.
Donors who contributed to Vanderpool cancer fundHere is the list of donors who contributed slightly more than $50,000 to funds to asisst ex-Napa police dispatcher Dannille Vanderpool with medical and personal expenses after she informed people she was battling ovarian cancer.
Local first responders gave thousands to VanderpoolUsing terms such as “incredulous” and “shocked,” Napa County police officers and firefighters reacted with disbelief to news a former dispatcher is accused of making off with more than $50,000 in donations by falsely claiming she had cancer.
April 14th, 2009
Ex-Napa dispatcher charged with faking cancer claimProsecutors say a former Napa police dispatcher duped residents and coworkers into believing she had cancer and bilked them out of tens of thousands of dollars.
February 15th, 2009
Former Napa police dispatcher investigatedNapa police confirm that they are investigating felony fraud allegations against a former Napa police dispatcher.
October 30th, 2007
Coming to rescue of police dispatcherDannille Vanderpool is determined to see her 8-year-old daughter grow up. The 33-year-old Napa police dispatcher has her to-do list, and even though she is facing great obstacles, Vanderpool plans to whittle down the list one feat at a time.
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