Former Stone Mountain High employee pleads guilty of stealing $23,000
Chyrokessia Rucks, a former book keeper, who stole nearly $23,000 from Stone Mountain High School, pled guilty to theft charges in a DeKalb County Superior Court Thursday.
An internal audit by the DeKalb County School System found financial mismanagement from 2009 until 2011. Judge Michael Hancock sentenced Rucks to 15 years probation and ordered her to repay the balance of the money stolen. DeKalb District Attorney Robert James said Rucks has already repaid $10,752.
“It’s sad that this woman would steal from children and try to hide her wrongdoings,” James said.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
