CHAMBER DIRECTOR ARRESTED.Byline: Donna Huffaker
A former executive director of the Montrose Montrose, town (1991 pop. 12,127), Angus, NE Scotland, on the North Sea at the mouth of the South Esk River. Open to water on three sides, it is a spacious resort town, with flax and jute mills, boat yards, fruit canneries, and a fishing industry. Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce was arrested Thursday on suspicion of embezzling $8,500 from the organization's revenue funds, officials said. Glendale police arrested Karen McCarty, 40, of La Crescenta on suspicion of grand theft by embezzlement embezzlement, wrongful use, for one's own selfish ends, of the property of another when that property has been legally entrusted to one. Such an act was not larceny at common law because larceny was committed only when property was acquired by a "felonious taking," i. from April 1997 to April 1998, said Sgt. Rick Young. The arrest culminated a 10-month investigation between Glendale police and the chamber's auditors AUDITORS, practice. Persons lawfully appointed to examine and digest accounts referred to them, take down the evidence in writing, which may be lawfully offered in relation to such accounts, and prepare materials on which a decree or judgment may be made; and to report the whole, together who found McCarty had not been depositing all the cash collected from community golf tournaments, mixers, business expos, arts-and-crafts fairs and other events, Young said. Efforts to contact McCarty for comment were unsuccessful Thursday. McCarty, who was fired last year, had served as the chamber's executive director for about one year, said Ken Grayson, who was chamber president last year. The loss of funds is ``very embarrassing,'' he said. ``We are very conscious that the money belonged to the community - it was used to promote business in the community,'' he said. The maximum penalty for one felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. count of embezzlement is three years in state prison, Glendale District Attorney Lonnie Felker said. |
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