SC woman charged with state’s first known case of school voucher fraud

A Gaston woman is accused of misusing more than $6,000 she received through the state’s school voucher program, SLED announced Thursday.

Between September 2024 and September 2025, Courtney Gibson, 33, allegedly used the proceeds of her child’s taxpayer-funded education scholarship to purchase $6,547 of electronics with the intent to resell the items for personal profit, an arrest warrant states.

She was arrested Feb. 13 and charged with two counts of felony breach of trust with fraudulent intent, according to SLED…

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