Cinnamon Brown trial delayed in Mason County

The Mason County trial of Cinnamon Brown, former Whitman County Finance Director, has been rescheduled. Brown, 33, had been scheduled for trial May 15 on fraud and forgery charges, but she did not show up in court for a May 1 pre-trial hearing.

A warrant for her arrest was subsequently issued the following day, but that warrant was quashed on May 22 after her attorney presented documentation that she had been hospitalized on the May 1 date.

The pre-trial has now been rescheduled for July 24, and the trial is set Aug. 8.

Brown, who resigned from her position here last August and was then hired...