From the Northwest Indiana Times:
To avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest, a case involving a bag containing tax checks from LaPorte County property owners winding up in a strange place has been turned over to Indiana State Police.
LaPorte County Police Chief of Detectives Pat Cicero would not say if the investigation, so far, has revealed any potential for criminal charges. Cicero said he was prohibited from divulging specifics about the case because the probe is ongoing.
According to a police report, the bag from the LaPorte County Treasurer's Office somehow wound up in a book drop box at the LaPorte County Public Library. 904 Indiana Ave. The employee at the library on Dec. 28 found the bag containing the checks along with deposit slips and placed the bag along with a note in the office of Fonda Owens, the director of the LaPorte County Public Library system.
Owens, after returning to her office three days later, turned the bag over to LaPorte police, who released it to Nancy Hawkins, an employee of the LaPorte County Treasurer, according to the report.
The police report did not offer any explanation on how the bag found its way to the drop box used to return books from outside the library.
Hawkins said there were not a large number of checks in the bag because it was not a major collection period. She said the bag was in her office at one point and the checks, upon their discovery, were deposited into the treasurer's account at the bank.
"They have been accounted for," she said.
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http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/laporte/state-police-to-investigate-missing-laporte-county-money/article_e7556372-be4f-5ab1-beda-0ca4795792b1.html
See an earlier post on this matter here:
http://indianapropertytaxreporter.blogspot.com/2013/04/nwi-reports-bank-bag-full-of-laporte.html
