The previous treasurer of a Coral Springs Broward County constitution faculty’s Mum or dad Instructor Group is dealing with a grand theft cost after allegedly taking $40,000 from the group’s checking account and utilizing it for private purchases, in response to police.
Rebecca Sanon, 50, of Tamarac, was the PTO treasurer for Think about College at Broward in Coral Springs from August 2020 to August 2024. As soon as her tenure ended, different PTO members filed a grievance after discovering there was solely $1,000 within the group’s checking account, which means about $17,000 was lacking, however the investigation discovered {that a} whole of $44,000 was the precise quantity misplaced, in response to a possible trigger affidavit.
Sanon is accused of withdrawing greater than $35,000 from ATMs, almost $5,000 inside financial institution branches and spending about $3,000 in transactions utilizing the PTO’s debit card, together with eating places, big-box and grocery shops, Uber and a Florida Energy & Mild invoice for her Tamarac residence, the affidavit mentioned. Because the first occasion in October 2021, almost 200 fraudulent transactions had been made in whole, in response to the affidavit.
Coral Springs Police detectives met with Sanon in January for an interview. She instructed them she had entry to the PTO’s checking account and debit card and “confirmed withdrawing funds from the ATM as a result of she was having a troublesome time,” the affidavit mentioned.
“She used the cash to keep away from being evicted and pay her hire, which was brought on by a ‘dangerous scenario,’” detectives wrote within the affidavit.
Sanon was arrested on Tuesday, courtroom information present. She has since been launched from the jail.
