Meridian officer charged after ‘irregularities’ found in bank account
Published 2:00 pm Friday, June 1, 2018
MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi law enforcement officer is charged with embezzlement after a police chief said “irregularities” were found in a bank account.
Robert B. Spangler was charged Tuesday. It was not immediately clear whether he as an attorney.
Meridian Police Chief Benny Dubose says Spangler worked as a reserve officer in the city, resigning in the past few weeks.
Spangler was treasurer of the Meridian Police Department Reserve Association, which had a bank account to buy equipment. Dubose says Spangler closed the account and gave a check to the association. Dubose says the new treasurer “noticed some irregularities” in the account.
Dubose says a grand jury in July could consider whether to indict Spangler, who has also worked part-time for the Marion Police Department.