OGDEN — An Ogden man charged with erasing employee data from the payroll database of an Ogden company pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and has been placed on two years of probation.
Justin Garcia, 23, was charged last year in 2nd District Court with computer crime, a second-degree felony, in connection with the removal of timecard information on more than 200 Autoliv employees from the global automotive supplier's computer system. Garcia had been employed in Ogden by one of Autoliv's staffing vendors but was fired on Aug. 17, 2023, for "timecard fraud," according to charging documents.
The damage to the Autoliv computer system occurred on Aug. 18, 2023.
As part of a plea agreement, Garcia pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge of attempted unlawful computer attack, a class A misdemeanor, and he was sentenced earlier this month to 364 days of jail, with 363 days of that suspended and credit granted for one day served. The judge placed him on probation for two years, ordered him to pay $12,170 plus interest in restitution and ordered him to complete 20 hours of community service.
