Whew! Arkansas Woman Arrested After Refusing to Return $20K Mistakenly Deposited Into Her Account By Employer

Whew… get into this, y’all. An Arkansas woman is now in some serious legal trouble after allegedly holding onto nearly $20,000 that her job accidentally dropped into her account and refusing to give it back!

So here’s what went down. Miss Rene Nichole Coleman, 50, was working for an in-home care company when a major payroll glitch flipped her regular paycheck all the way upside down. Normally, she was making $16.50 an hour, cool, regular, nothing wild. But somehow, the system had her clocking in at $1,650 an hour for a 12-hour shift.

Now although that wasn’t her fault at all, that mistake led to an extra $19,388 hitting her bank account on May 10, 2025. But instead of that money being a quick “oops, let me send this back,” it turned into a whole legal case…

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