Pine Bluff convention Center Workers Charged
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The Jefferson County prosecutor says two
employees of the Pine Bluff Convention Center have been charged
with forging 225 checks to steal at least 25-hundred dollars.
Prosecutor Stevan Dalrymple said today that 37-year-old Steven
Barnett and 34-year-old Aurora Smith, both of Pine Bluff, will turn
themselves in for arrest.
They were charged with felony theft of property, forgery and
conspiracy to commit forgery and with misdemeanor falsifying
business records and conspiracy to falsify those records.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Fred D. Harris the Third set bond
at ten-thousand dollars for each defendant. The judge set a
tentative court date for October First.
Dalrymple said convention center staff notified him of the
alleged check-forgery scheme June 27th, and the Pine Bluff Police
Department began an investigation.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
