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Preliminary hearing in embezzlement case rescheduled

District court

August 09, 2012|By Bob Flynn

The case against a Winchester woman accused of embezzling more than $24,000 from The Winchester Sun has been continued to Aug. 22.

Michelle Holloman, 38, made her first appearance Wednesday before Judge Brandi Oliver Brown in Clark District Court.
During the pretrial conference, Brown scheduled a preliminary hearing for Holloman on Aug. 22 at 1:30 p.m. She also changed Holloman’s bond from a $5,000 cash bond to a $5,000 cash or property bond.
Winchester Sun managers first reported the theft to Winchester Police in June.

After being interviewed by police July 19, Holloman was arrested and charged with theft by unlawful taking of more than $10,000.

Holloman was the circulation manager of the Sun. In the arrest citation, detectives allege that she accepted cash payments from customers, but the entries were deleted from the company system, and other collected funds were never turned in.

According the incident report, Holloman is accused of taking approximately $19,922 in cash from counter and dealer payments and $4,266 in coins from newspaper racks during a 13-month span between April 2011 and May 17.

At the time of the alleged theft, Holloman was on probation from a previous charge in Fayette County.
On June 11, 2010, Holloman was charged in Lexington with theft by deception for taking $41,000 from a previous employer.

She was sentenced to five years in prison on the charge on Dec. 17, 2010, in Fayette Circuit Court and served just more than a month before being granted conditional shock probation on Jan. 24, 2011.

Holloman is to appear Aug. 31 before Circuit Judge Pamela Goodwine in Fayette Circuit Court for a probation review.

Contact Bob Flynn at bflynn@winchestersun.com.

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