WESTLAKE, La. (AP) - A Westlake woman has been arrested after investigators found she allegedly wrote more than $166,000 in checks on a church’s business account to herself over a four-year period.
KPLC-TV (https://bit.ly/27SPbCF ) reports deputies arrested 40-year-old Lenny M. McLendon on Monday on one count each of theft over $25,000 and forgery.
The investigation began on May 10 when the sheriff’s office got a call from an area church about employee forgery and theft. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Kim Myers says McLendon had written more than 200 church business checks to herself from 2012 through March 2016, totaling more than $166,700.
Myers says documentation shows she had forged signatures of board members’ names to the checks, along with other paperwork.
McLendon is being held at the Calcasieu Correctional Center on a $40,000 bond.
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Information from: KPLC-TV, https://kplctv.com
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