HILO, Hawai'i — A former Hilo District Court judicial clerk has been charged with traffic ticket "fixing" for allegedly destroying or altering ticket records in 2003, according to the state Attorney General's office.

Dionne A. Woolsey, 36, is accused of deliberately trying to "fix, void, change, modify, adjust or tamper with or otherwise dispose of" a traffic citation on May 13, 2003, according to the complaint filed in Hilo Circuit Court.

Marsha Kitagawa, spokeswoman for the state Judiciary, said Woolsey was terminated from her job on Oct. 3, 2003 for intentionally destroying a record, and for later trying to alter a record related to the disposition of a citation.

Woolsey had been a clerk in the Traffic Violations Bureau, and was responsible for processing traffic citations, Kitagawa said.

Woolsey had worked for the Judiciary since 1993, according to court records.

The state law also provides that state workers involved in tampering with traffic citations will be immediately discharged. Ticket "fixing" or tampering with a ticket or summons is a felony publishable by up to five years in prison, and by fines of at least $1,000 and up to $10,000.

Kitagawa said she did not know the name of the person who received the citation that prompted the allegations.

Woolsey and Deputy Attorney General Dwight K. Nadamoto were unavailable to comment yesterday.

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