Thursday, August 25, 2011

Former Warsaw Paper Employee Charged With Theft

From today's Fort Wayne News-Sentinel:

Ex-circulation manager for Warsaw paper charged with theft

From staff reports

The former circulation manager of the Warsaw Times-Union has been charged with felony theft after an investigation led police officers to allege she did not deposit thousands of dollars in cash receipts for the newspaper.

According to a news release from the Warsaw Police Department, Rebecca Walton, 35, of Warsaw, did not deposit cash receipts from contracted newspaper carriers for five or six years, between 2005 and 2011. The release said a completed audit indicated more than $58,000 was not deposited.

Walton was arrested today, according to the release. She is charged with two counts of Class D felony theft. She was being held in the Kosciusko County Jail on $60,000 bond, the statement said.

The news release also stated there was no evidence to support that Walton had help performing the alleged thefts.

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