Does the fact that Mary Davis was charged with 8 counts of theft mean that Julie McArdle was wrongfully fired?
PEORIA — A former District 150 principal allegedly stole $4,000 from her employer over three years, the county’s top prosecutor alleged Friday.
Mary C. Davis, principal at Charles Lindbergh Middle School for five years before moving into central administration in 2008 to head up all the district’s principals, was charged Friday with 16 felony counts of official misconduct and theft.
The eight theft charges specify dates when Davis allegedly took money. The actual amount taken each time wasn’t in the charges, only the statutory threshold of being more or less than $300.
“Among the charges, the counts include a $475 personal acquisition of a Mont Blanc pen and checks written to the defendant for cash well beyond the claims and ‘receipts’ she used to support the claim,” said Peoria County State’s Attorney Kevin Lyons.
When reached Friday, Davis said she had no knowledge of the charges.
The 51-year-old Dunlap resident is accused of taking money from the district four times in 2006, and twice each in 2005 and 2007. The official misconduct charges all allege she “knowingly performed an act which she knows was forbidden by law,” that act being theft of government property.
If convicted, she faces up to seven years in prison. Davis was ordered to appear in court on May 19.
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PEORIA — A former District 150 principal allegedly stole $4,000 from her employer over three years, the county’s top prosecutor alleged Friday.
Mary C. Davis, principal at Charles Lindbergh Middle School for five years before moving into central administration in 2008 to head up all the district’s principals, was charged Friday with 16 felony counts of official misconduct and theft.
The eight theft charges specify dates when Davis allegedly took money. The actual amount taken each time wasn’t in the charges, only the statutory threshold of being more or less than $300.
“Among the charges, the counts include a $475 personal acquisition of a Mont Blanc pen and checks written to the defendant for cash well beyond the claims and ‘receipts’ she used to support the claim,” said Peoria County State’s Attorney Kevin Lyons.
When reached Friday, Davis said she had no knowledge of the charges.
The 51-year-old Dunlap resident is accused of taking money from the district four times in 2006, and twice each in 2005 and 2007. The official misconduct charges all allege she “knowingly performed an act which she knows was forbidden by law,” that act being theft of government property.
If convicted, she faces up to seven years in prison. Davis was ordered to appear in court on May 19.
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