Margarita Alvarez Gonzalez pleaded guilty Thursday to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. She faces up to 32 years in prison when U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon sentences her on Oct. 30.

Prosecutors say a Great Falls woman allowed Gonzalez, who was the daughter of a friend, to stay with her for a few months during the spring of 2007. The woman was hospitalized on July 7, 2007. She slipped into a coma and was placed on life support on Aug. 1 and died on Aug. 18.

Prosecutors say Gonzalez took several books of checks from the woman's apartment and wrote $3,800 in fraudulent checks at local businesses between early July and Aug. 21, 2007.