| Grand jury getting cafeteria manager case
Lenoir City Police Department completed the
investigation of missing cafeteria funds from Lenoir City
Intermediate/Middle School and turned the case over to the Ninth
Judicial District Attorney General’s Office.
Lenoir City Schools in May gave information regarding
missing funds to LCPD. The investigation took 6-8 weeks before
handing the case over to Attorney General Russell Johnson’s office,
Lenoir City Police Chief Don White said.
White said Linda Robinson, who was the manager of
the LCIMS cafeteria, admitted taking funds. She was not charged.
About $8,000 was taken over a five-year period,
Lenoir City Schools Superintendent Jeanne Barker said. The money
was paid back “immediately,” she said.
“We next go to the Loudon (grand jury) in
December,” Johnson said in an email correspondence. “Most
likely we will present the case to the (grand jury) at that
time to see what action, if any, the (grand jury) wishes to
take. One of the big legal hurdles is that this goes back
many years and each time an amount was taken, it was a small
sum (always a misdemeanor amount). Therefore, the statute of
limitations of one year began to run with each crime, so it
is unclear how much of this we could prosecute and at what
level.”
Robinson announced her retirement from the
position Feb. 22 in a one-sentence, handwritten letter.
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