This article has been updated to include a second arrest. Original report named Stephanie Thomas. Leslie Clinton Ellis has also been arrested.
Two employees of the Glennville Housing Authority terminated after a scathing financial audit have been arrested by the GBI.
According to public records, Stephanie LaShae Thomas was booked into the Tattnall County Jail on Monday. Records show Thomas was arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Region 5 Office out of Statesboro. As of Monday morning, Thomas is charged with ‘Theft by Conversion – Felony.’
Shortly after Thomas was booked into the jail, Leslie Clinton Ellis, who served as the Executive Director of the Housing Authority until late October, was also booked into the jail. She is also facing felony Theft by Conversion charges.
Thomas and Ellis were terminated from the Glennville Housing Authority roughly ten days ago. Both were named in a financial audit which detailed a host of issues, including questionable vendor payments and work conducted at private homes with public resources, among other things.
Thomas is also a school board member with the Tattnall County Board of Education.
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Previous Coverage
- Audit: Glennville Housing Authority Paid for Work at Employees’ Homes, $441K in Questionable Contractor Payments
- Glennville Housing Authority Saga Spans to McRae Housing Authority Where FBI is Already Investigating
- Glennville City Officials Replace 4 Glennville Housing Authority Board Members Amid Fraud Investigation
- Two Glennville Housing Authority Employees Terminated
