A longtime Broward County Public Schools employee has been charged with grand theft after authorities accused her of failing to deposit nearly $4,500 collected through school fundraisers and other activities.<\/p>\n
Shauntay Poole, 57, of Fort Lauderdale, was arrested Wednesday and charged with third-degree felony grand theft of more than $750 but less than $5,000, according to Broward County court records.<\/p>\n
Poole, also known as Shauntay Cunningham-Poole, has worked for Broward County Public Schools for 28 years and is listed as a bookkeeper at McArthur High School in Hollywood.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, Broward Schools Police began investigating discrepancies involving cash collected from fundraising and other school-related activities between September and February.<\/p>\n
Sgt. Thomas Honan, a detective with the department\u2019s special investigations unit, said Poole failed to account for or provide documentation for 10 outstanding cash deposits totaling $4,491.80.<\/p>\n
The money was supposed to be transferred to Brink\u2019s for transportation and deposit into the school\u2019s JPMorgan Chase account, according to the report.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Poole did not provide an explanation for the missing money. Honan alleged that she failed to turn over the funds for deposit.<\/p>\n
The investigation included Ryan Smith, director of the BCPS Business Support Center in Sunrise, and McArthur High School Principal Mark Howard as witnesses, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n
School district audit reports from 2017 and 2022 previously listed Cunningham-Poole as a bookkeeper at Whiddon-Rogers Education Center in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n
Poole was booked into the Broward County Main Jail on Wednesday. Her bond was set at $2,500.<\/p>\n
Aaron Savitski, a spokesman for the Broward County State Attorney\u2019s Office, said the charge carries an automatic bond and Poole was therefore not required to appear in magistrate court. A court appearance will be scheduled before the judge assigned to the case.<\/p>\n
Broward County Circuit Judge Francis Viamontes has been assigned to preside over the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A longtime Broward County Public Schools employee has been charged with grand theft after authorities accused her of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-404266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}