A former Lee County Schools employee charged with stealing nearly $200,000 from the district has been scheduled for trial in July.
The North Carolina Courts website shows that Jordan Allred is scheduled for trial in Lee County Superior Court beginning on July 6. She faces a single count of embezzlement of more than $100,000.
Allred, 36, is a former assistant finance officer with LCS. She was charged on March 19 after voluntarily surrendering on charges that she took $190,588.93 from the district. The theft was reported several days prior to her arrest.
Embezzlement of more than $100,000 is a class C felony under North Carolina law.
The office of North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek announced in the wake of Allred’s arrest that it was conducting “an investigative audit” of Lee County Schools to “provide an objective account to assist in resolving what appears to be financial malfeasance.”