A Lewis County Jail inmate and an out-of-custody accomplice are facing charges in Lewis County Superior Court for allegedly taking part in a scheme involving the accomplice pretending to be a doctor at an Olympia medical clinic to obtain the inmate’s medical records.
The inmate, identified as Rochelle Lee Schneberger, 41, allegedly believed “there might be a negative urinalysis in her jail medical records that would aid her in her recent DOSA (drug offender sentencing alternative) use violation,” according to charging documents filed in Lewis County Superior Court on Tuesday.
Schneberger was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail on that DOSA violation on April 2, according to jail records.
Records of jail phone calls, which are all recorded due to jail policy, reportedly show that Schneberger called Robert Lewis Walters, 64, between April 4 and April 10 and allegedly conspired with him to have Walters pose as a doctor to obtain Schneberger’s medical records from the jail.
Schneberger is accused of instructing Walters how to purchase a phone number, telling him to create a fake letterhead for Sea Mar Olympia and discussing with Walters “how he could fake being ‘Doctor Walters’” and “fax the fictitious request to the jail in an attempt to get her medical records,” according to court documents.
A detective with the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reportedly discovered the fraud when a jail administration assistant reported receiving a suspicious fax from a “Dr. Roberto Walters” and two calls from an anonymous number requesting Schneberger’s urinalysis results.
According to the administration assistant, “the fax looked blurry and contained misspellings,” and Schneberger’s digital signature was misspelled.
Medical staff at the jail reportedly attempted to call “Dr. Roberto Roberts” to verify the authenticity of the request, but were “informed by Sea Mar Olympia that there was no such doctor there,” according to court documents. A detective also confirmed that the address on the fax “was fictitious.”
When questioned by a detective, Walters allegedly “admitted to creating the fake document purporting to be from Sea Mar” in an attempt to “help” Schneberger, saying “he created the document and expressed frustration that his friend was sitting in jail due to what she thought was a false positive drug screening.”
Schneberger and Walter were charged as codefendants in Lewis County Superior Court on Tuesday, April 15. They each face one count of first-degree criminal impersonation and forgery.
Each charge is a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Schneberger’s DOSA violation stems from a June 2024 case where she and another woman had fraudulent checks, stolen credit cards and fentanyl in their possession when an officer stopped them in Centralia.
Schneberger pleaded guilty in October 2024 on five counts of second-degree possession of stolen property, two counts of unlawful possession of a payment instrument, one count of forgery and one count of possession of a controlled substance.
Due to her criminal history at the time, her standard sentencing range was 22 to 29 months on each count.
She was granted a 24-month residential DOSA on Oct. 23, which was set to conclude in October 2026.
A motion to revoke her DOSA was filed on April 3 and a hearing was scheduled for April 16.
Due to what Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher called “inconsistent urinalysis” on her DOSA violation case, all parties agreed Tuesday to dismiss the DOSA violation case and release Schneberger on $10,000 unsecured bail for the new case.
“Today, we’re going to give her the benefit of the doubt on that,” Meagher said of the alleged DOSA violation.
“You’ve been given quite the lucky break here, I have to say,” Lewis County Superior Court Judge Joely Yeager told Schneberger on Tuesday.
Schneberger’s conditions of release require her to resume her DOSA treatment, maintain contact with her Department of Corrections supervisor and return to court on Thursday, April 24, for arraignment on the new case.
A preliminary hearing for Walters had not been scheduled as of Tuesday afternoon.
