{"id":10473,"date":"2012-07-10T17:22:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2012-07-10T19:06:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T00:06:28","slug":"school-bookkeeper-charged-with-grand-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/07\/school-bookkeeper-charged-with-grand-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"School Bookkeeper <BR>Charged with Grand Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10474\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/yidenia-alonso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10474\" title=\"yidenia alonso\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/yidenia-alonso-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/yidenia-alonso-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/yidenia-alonso.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yidenia Alonso<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A bookkeeper at a Lee County middle school is charged with stealing nearly $8,000.00 that was intended to benefit students at the school.<\/p>\n<p>Yidenia Alonso, Lehigh Acres, worked as a bookkeeper at Varsity Lakes Middle School.\u00a0 An internal audit by the Lee County School District showed money that Alonso collected from students, parents and teachers was missing.<\/p>\n<p>A complaint was made to the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the case was turned over to LCSO&#8217;s Economic Crimes Unit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that between February 2009 and March 2010, Alonso was given $7,879.36 in cash and checks.\u00a0 The money was paid by parents for their children to attend the school&#8217;s morning program.\u00a0 Alonso also collected money from concession stand and ticket sales to school events.\u00a0 The investigation shows that\u00a0Alonso was careful to deposit the checks she was given\u00a0into the school&#8217;s account, but she would pocket much of the cash\u00a0for herself.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso is charged with Grand Theft and Scheme to Defraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bookkeeper at a Lee County middle school is charged with stealing nearly $8,000.00 that was intended to benefit students at the school. Yidenia Alonso, Lehigh Acres, worked as a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}