OGDEN — An Ogden man charged with erasing employee data from the payroll database of an Ogden company pleaded guilty to a reduced charge and has been placed on two years of probation.

Justin Garcia, 23, was charged last year in 2nd District Court with computer crime, a second-degree felony, in connection with the removal of timecard information on more than 200 Autoliv employees from the global automotive supplier's computer system. Garcia had been employed in Ogden by one of Autoliv's staffing vendors but was fired on Aug. 17, 2023, for "timecard fraud," according to charging documents.

The damage to the Autoliv computer system occurred on Aug. 18, 2023.

As part of a plea agreement, Garcia pleaded guilty in August to a reduced charge of attempted unlawful computer attack, a class A m

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