Beauty queen faces felony charges
According to the criminal complaint obtained by 7 Action News, 26-year-old Shaletta Porterfield, falsified signatures on advertising contracts at a job, where she allegedly called potential clients and signed them up for services they did not want or request.
Police say after a while Porterfield just started picking random victims from a phone book without even calling them. Porterfield told them she did not need the money and was going to pay it back, but she needed her numbers to be up.
Porterfield graduated from Walled Lake High School in 2003 and then went on to attend the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Porterfield moved to Madison, Wisconsin and currently resides there. She was crowned Miss Wisconsin-USA this past September.
She was supposed to compete in the Miss USA pageant next month but resigned after the felony charges.
Her mother still lives here in West Bloomfield Township. 7 Action News left messages with her and Porterfield’s attorney in Wisconsin.
The Miss USA pageant released this statement to Action News:
“The Miss Wisconsin USA pageant confirms that Shaletta Porterfield, Miss Wisconsin USA 2011, has elected to resign her title. Ms. Porterfield had won the crown on September 19, 2010, but will now relinquish her title to a successor. Jordan Marie Morkin, who was the first runner-up to Ms. Porterfield at the state pageant in September, will now assume the title of Miss Wisconsin USA 2011 and will compete at the national Miss USA Pageant on June 19th.” --Miss Wisconsin USA Pageant.
Source:wxyz
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