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A Connecticut substitute teacher was arrested after she was mistakenly paid $54,000 for simply two days of labor and refused to return the cash, police mentioned.
Shalyn Coley, a 24-year-old educator within the Stamford Public School District, was paid over $54,000 for simply two days of labor in October and November 2022, in keeping with an arrest warrant obtained by The Stamford Advocate.
The cash, which was about $27,000 after taxes, was deposited in her checking account.
The going fee for a substitute teacher within the district is $105 per day.
Coley, who was employed in 2020, instructed the district in emails that her financial institution wouldn’t permit her to reverse the transaction, claiming that “the City has to reverse the transaction on their finish,” in keeping with the warrant.
She then promised the district she would drop off a examine for the quantity that was mistakenly deposited, however police mentioned she by no means did.
Police then seized $19,863 from Coley’s checking account, in keeping with the warrant.
She was arrested on March 8 and charged with larceny.
Coley was arraigned on the identical day on the state Superior Court in Stamford, the place a judge dropped her $250,000 bond to a promise to look.
She is scheduled to subsequent seem in court docket on May 8, in keeping with The Advocate.
