A Carbon County resort worker has been charged after she admitted creating a web identity to impersonate a liquor control board officer.

Pennsylvania State Police at Fern Ridge detailed the case against Amy Lewis:

Lewis, 42, of Edwardsville, general manager of the Mountain Laurel Resort in White Haven, said she received an email from someone posing as a Liquor Control Officer and forwarded the fake complaint which said that an anonymous customer had been seeing a 2- to 3-year-old child in the Mountain View Bar of the Mountain Laurel Resort on Jan. 24.

This incident was brought to the attention of the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement by a woman who told the LCE Officer that she was concerned about the validity of the emails/attachments that Lewis forwarded. The woman said two employees were fired because of the fake complaint, while another was suspended.

Lewis said she suspended a server who had her 2-year-old child at the bar that day, and also fired the two managers who allowed the server to have her child at the bar.

The Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement never received a complaint at the Mountain Laurel Resort.

Police interviewed Lewis, who said that in early February 2021, she received an email from the person posing as an LCE officer.

Lewis said that the incident described by the fake LCE officer had actually occurred. A patron of the bar that day did in fact fill out an incident report online, but they convinced the patron not to send the complaint to the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement, and assured the patron that it would be handled internally.

Lewis said the 2-year-old child belonged to the suspended supervisor, and that the managers were fired and the served was suspended because the patron described the child to be unattended, walking behind the bar and touching various liquor bottles. Lewis said that after speaking with the LCE officer, she spoke with several of her employees who had overheard a conversation between the resort’s human resource employee and who they believe to be a former IT employee.

Lewis said when she was hired by the resort as the general manager, she was told to “clean house,” and that she had fired several employees since taking over in the hopes of helping the resort to turn around. She said that the former IT employee at the resort was fired for not doing required work, and that the IT employee and the HR employee were very close when they worked together.

Lewis said the HR employee was fired shortly after her interview with the LCE officer, and that she believes the two of them conspired together to use the legitimate patron complaint on file at the resort in order to get her fired.

Lewis told police that the HR officer had been brought back by the ownership.

Police determined that the email address Lewis used was registered through GoDaddy.com and was created on Feb. 18, 2021.

After a polygraph examination by police, Lewis admitted that she lied to investigators and that she, along with the help of an outside friend, created the fictitious domain name and sent the email acting as an officer. Lewis said the original complaint from the hotel guest was legitimate, but the guest said if she didn’t handle the complaint, he would notify the PLCB.

Lewis said creating the fictitious complaint was a way to justify the employees’ firings.

On Sept. 27, police received search warrant results from GoDaddy.com LLC, which showed the domain was registered by Eugene Breton Lewis, the husband of Amy Lewis, on Feb. 18, 2021. Lewis is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing March 16 before District Judge Joseph D. Homanko Sr. of Weatherly.