Two Boone County Schools employees have been charged with stealing at least $20,000 from the county board of education. Transportation director Bryan Jarrell and mechanic Tracy Harvey turned themselves in to West Virginia State Police on Wednesday afternoon, said Sgt. C.R. Sutphin, of the WVSP Madison detachment.
Jarrell and Harvey are charged with embezzlement and obtaining by fraud for allegedly making personal purchases with money from the county's transportation department budget, Sutphin said.
They allegedly made more than $20,000 in purchases, he said.
"And that number is probably going to go up," Sutphin said.
Wednesday afternoon Sutphin said troopers were preparing to take Jarrell and Harvey to Boone County Magistrate Court for arraignment.