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Lee Schools' Thweatt indicted, Auditor's Office says
by Patsy R. Brumfield/NEMS Daily Journal
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Randy Thweatt, left front, Lee Schools business manager, is shown in handcuffs as he's escorted from his office by state auditors' investigators on Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
Randy Thweatt, left front, Lee Schools business manager, is shown in handcuffs as he's escorted from his office by state auditors' investigators on Tuesday, April 17, 2012.
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TUPELO – Randy Thweatt, longtime business manager for Lee County School District, was indicted today on embezzlement charges.

Lisa Shoemaker, a spokesman for State Auditor Stacey Pickering, reported the indictment.

Details are forthcoming.

Thweatt, 50, faces a July 25 arraignment, which is a hearing when he will enter a plea before a circuit judge.

Shoemaker said Thweatt got a call today about the indictment.

He was arrested April 17 stemming from an auditor's investigation that he allegedly had a district-owned air conditioning unit installed at a mobile home he owns in Starkville and changed a title to hiss name on a district-owned truck.

Thweatt is on paid leave from the school district. He remains free on bond.
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