Former school group member faces sentencing

Twin Lakes resident pleaded guilty to theft charges

A former member of Randall Consolidated School’s Parent-Teacher Club, who pleaded guilty to felony theft of funds from the group, faces a Feb. 15 sentencing hearing in Kenosha County Circuit Court, according to online court records.

Terra Mener, 45, who pleaded guilty at a December 2016 hearing, reportedly agreed paid restitution for the losses incurred at the Randall PTC.

Mener, who was accused of taking about $25,000 from the Randall PTC while serving as group’s treasurer from February 2012 through November 2014, initially pleaded not guilty at a November 2016 hearing, court records show.

The complaint contends that in January of 2015, a member of the Randall PTC became suspicious, after Mener declined to disclose bank statements despite multiple confrontations by the group member.

Following several “excuses by the defendant,” the group member went to BMO Harris Bank in Twin Lakes to check the group’s checking accounts on Jan. 15, when she discovered missing funds, the complaint reports.

After the discovery, the group member confronted Mener on Jan. 20 at her Twin Lakes home, where Mener admitted taking about $25,000 from the PTC accounts for “her own personal use,” the complaint contends.

The group member reports that Mener used the funds to support her drug habit, which had been addressed when she entered a drug treatment program for pain medication abuse.

According to the criminal complaint, investigators uncovered 68 total unauthorized cash withdrawals scattered among BMO Harris Bank branches in Paddock Lake, Burlington, Twin Lakes and McHenry, Ill.

In the ensuing investigation, authorities reviewed Mener’s personal bank accounts at Guaranty Bank, which indicated deposits had been made on the same day she was accused of withdrawing funds from the PTC account.

The complaint contends that, according to the Randall PTC bylaws, a single person cannot make a withdrawal from the group’s account.

Mener is currently out on a $10,000 signature bond, which had been posted at a September hearing, where she learned of the charges.

In October, she waived her right to preliminary hearing.


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