text:  Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has announced the indictment of an Essex woman in separate cases of theft and insurance fraud. 45-year-old Chanel West worked at the Maryland Department of Labor when she allegedly altered checks made out to the state and deposited the money into her own accounts. After she was fired from the job, she then allegedly filed false insurance claims for lost wages, claiming she had had a car accident. Prosecutors say the real reason she was out of work was because she had been fired.