Friday's Internet Edition, May 09, 2008.
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Kim Berryhill, 40, and Richard Wayne Berryhill Jr., 41, of 936 Greenhill Road were indicted by a Davie Grand Jury on Monday.
The investigation took months and involved stack after stack of paperwork, said Mocksville Police Detective Stuart Shore.
The Berryhills are accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from the PTA while Kim Berryhill was co-president and treasurer.
Shore said that most of the illegal transactions - which involved ATM withdrawals, forged checks and altered bank statements - were committed by Richard Berryhill, who is charged with eight counts forgery and two counts financial card fraud.
Kim Berryhill faces two embezzlement charges, aiding and abetting forgery, and two counts of accessory after the fact to a felony.
The two were expected to turn themselves in this week.
Shore said the investigation started in June, when District Attorney Garry Frank gave police information from other board members at the PTA who suspected something was wrong.
Kim Berryhill suddenly resigned from her positions on the PTA board, and provided other board members with blank bank statements, reflecting no figures or money.
“The board members couldn’t get the documents they needed,” Shore said. “They knew there was a problem.”
Investigators checked the PTA records back to 2003, when Kim Berryhill became involved, but believe the illegal transactions all happened last school year.
Richard Berryhill told Shore that he needed the money to buy illegal drugs.
Kim Berryhill admitted to using the PTA card to buy her son an Ipod, but paid that money back soon. The transaction was still illegal, Shore said.
She became suspicious, Shore said, when she noticed her husband had printed a PTA bank statement ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.