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Birdie Jo and Becky Hoaks have a long history of crime across the U.S. The latest sentencing comes in southeast Kansas.  On Tuesday, a Neosho County judge ordered Birdie Jo Hoaks to eight months in prison for conspiracy to commit theft.   Birdie Jo was convicted of forgery, theft and interference with a law enforcement officer in The sisters were arrested in 2016 for using bad checks to buy hundreds of dollars worth of stamps from post offices in Chanute, Cherryvale, Coffeyville, Neodesha, and Thayer.  Similar charges against Becky Hoaks were dismissed. She is serving a sentence for similar crimes in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. 

The long list of schemes, ran by the Hoaks sisters, span back to the 1980s.