A mother and daughter have been arrested for allegedly stealing from their homeowners association.
The pair – 67-year-old Dewana Vaughn and 44-year-old Holly Marie Cagle – live in the Countryside Lakes subdivision in Weirsdale.
Cagle had served as the treasurer for the subdivision.
Earlier this year, a new treasurer took over the HOA’s finances and found that Cagle had stolen more than $50,000, according to an arrest report from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. The new treasurer said that when she confronted Cagle about the missing funds, Cagle told her that “she only took the money to help her family,” according to the report.
A Marion County detective assigned to the case obtained the HOA’s books and subpoenaed the account records from Regions Bank in Summerfield. He was able to confirm that several Zelle transactions went from the HOA’s Regions Bank account to an account at Bank of America. The Bank of America account belonged to High Mark Transport LLC, a company owned by Cagle’s husband. He has not been charged…