DAYTONA BEACH - A city worker in Daytona Beach was arrested April 18 on charges of stealing money in her former job in the accounting department at Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach police said.
Elgena Wallace, 32, of Port Orange, who has worked in the Daytona Beach utility-department for about a year, was charged with organized scheme to defraud.
Wallace is accused of taking $40,000 from student checks and depositing the money into her own bank account. She faces a potential prison sentence if convicted of the felony charge.