Monica McVay
An ex-bookkeeper charged with stealing almost $3,400 from the business where she worked appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Fifty-one-year-old Monica Cherie McVay of rural Mountain Home entered a not guilty plea to six counts of forgery and one count of theft of property.
She is accused of writing checks on the business listing herself as the payee. At the time she had been working as the bookkeeper for about a year-and-a-half, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Notations on the checks, which were written in April and June, falsely showed they were intended to pay for items such as insurance and liquor license fees.
A signature stamp with the owners name was used on the checks without his authorization.
The victim said he recently took an out of town trip, and while speaking to McVay on the telephone realized there were issues with two of his bank accounts. He reported he told McVay to bring the bank accounts up to date before he returned.
She is alleged to have quit her job by text message before the owner got back.
Investigators found that all six checks allegedly forged by McVay had been deleted from the computer bookkeeping program used by the business.
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