Former Bethune-Cookman employee charged with fraud

DAYTONA BEACH - A city worker in Daytona Beach has been charged with stealing money in her former job in the accounting department at Bethune-Cookman University, police said.

Elgena Wallace, 32, of Port Orange, who has worked in the Daytona Beach utility-department for about a year, was arested Friday on a charge of organized scheme to defraud. Wallace is accused of taking $40,000 from student checks and depositing the money into her own bank account.

The accused was being held on $20,000 bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail. She faces a potential prison sentence if convicted of the felony charge.

 

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