Selma Police charge women with theft from City Hall

Staff

Published Friday, June 27, 2008

The Selma Times-Journal

Selma police

officers arrested Maneka Burns Shelton, 24, Friday afternoon

and accused her of making three counterfeit checks using a City of Selma

bank account.

Officers charged Shelton with theft of property first degree and theft of property second degree.

A worker in the city’s finance office told police late last week some checks routed through the city’s account looked like forgeries.

Lt. David Evans, a spokesman for the Selma Police Department, said Shelton got the city banking account’s routing and account number from a check the city wrote to her.

The city had written the check to Shelton as returned money for a bond she paid for someone after a decision by the municipal court.

Evans said evidence points to Shelton generating at least three checks on a computer, using the information on the refund check from the city.

Investigators found at least one check for $35,140, the largest amount of the three written.

Evans also said Shelton allegedly wrote a check for $3,591.51 to pay off a student loan. Shelton was graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a degree in computer science, according to the police spokesman.

The other check amounted to $500 made out to an insurance agency.

Evans said the department will investigate filing federal charges against Shelton because some of the money was wired across state lines.

The city will not lose the money. It will be recovered , Evans said.

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