Former Bevill State Community College cashier agrees to plead guilty to embezzlement in Alabama

A former Bevill State Community College cashier and business office manager has agreed to plead guilty to embezzling $20,000 from the school, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Birmingham announced Friday. Janet Adams Bobo, 55, on Friday was charged with taking the money between May 2007 and May 2008 and agreed to plead guilty. The plea agreement states Bobo began taking money from a cash drawer several years earlier, according to a statement from Peggy Sanford, spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance. An audit by the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts for the period Oct. 1, 2004 through May 23, 2008, uncovered the embezzlement, the statement read. The audit revealed Bobo had embezzled $113,763 from the college. She has repaid that amount, according to Sanford's statement.
"Mrs. Bobo has confessed to the embezzlements that extended over a period of years and has entered into an agreement with the United States to plead guilty to the information," Vance said in the press release. The maximum penalty for the embezzlement charge is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.