Accident delays hearing in credit card case

YOUNGSTOWN -- A plea hearing for a Columbus woman accused of trying to use credit cards of a woman murdered by her boyfriend was delayed Friday because she was in a serious car accident.
Holly Washington, 43, was to appear for a hearing in front of Judge Maureen Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court on charges of forgery and receiving stolen property. She pleaded innocent to the charges in January 2003.
Court officials said Washington was seriously injured in the accident, and may have to have her leg amputated. They didn't have any information on the crash. The judge postponed the hearing for at least 60 days.
An indictment says Washington tried to use credit cards that belonged to Suzanne M. Dalton, 43, of Columbus in December 2002.
George Ware IV of Columbus, and formerly of Youngstown, murdered Dalton in Columbus in December 2002. He drove Dalton's body to Youngstown in the car of the woman's husband, and then burned the car with her body in it on Youngstown's East Side.
Ware was convicted in November 2003 in Franklin County of aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, arson and abuse of a corpse. A judge sentenced him to life in prison without parole.