Jessica Catherine Jones, 25, of Burrendong Way, Mullion Creek, was given community-based custodial sentences in Orange Local Court on Monday.

During sentencing magistrate David Day took into account her involvement with the Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment program and abstinence from drugs.

Solicitor Neil Jones said his client grew up in Orange, was employed with the Department of Industries and the Hotel Orange before she spiralled into drug addiction.

"This is a classic case of where ice can take a young person," Mr Jones said.

According to police, residents of a Mount Canobolas property were evacuated during the February 2018 fire and were unable to return to live there because the blaze destroyed sheds and cut power and water.

On January 7, 2019, the residents discovered the house had been ransacked and two days later, one of the residents noticed a cheque withdrawal for $5000 had been made from their bank account.

It was discovered the forged cheque was deposited into Jones' account via an ATM on January 4 so her bank froze the funds.

Jones returned to the bank that day to inquire about the frozen funds and later returned with 100 points of ID as well as a signed statutory declaration in an effort to obtain the money.

When she spoke to police she implicated an ex-boyfriend but police doubted her account. Jones also changed her story, and the handwriting on the cheque and her statutory declaration were similar.

Jones was given a 12-month Intensive Correction Order - a community-base custodial sentence, for dealing with the proceeds of crime by using a stolen cheque.

She was also given a 12-month ICO with 50 hours of community service for dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by writing out the cheque to herself for $5000. She was also given a a 12-month Community Correction Order for failing to appear in court on April 8.

Jones was also given a 12-month CCO with 50 hours of community service for contacting her ex-boyfriend's mobile phone provider and requesting a new iPhone but upgraded the plan and gave her address.

The deception was discovered when the man received a higher than usual phone bill.

Jones was also given a 12-month CCO for breaching a 12-month good-behaviour bond she was given in September 2018, for possession of methamphetamine. She was given the same sentence for possessing methamphetamine on April 25, 2019.

The conditions of her bonds will require her to abstain from drugs and attend rehabilitation and training.

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