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Student accused of theft (w/police report)
Money meant for rent payback
BRITTANY COFER
Issue date: 9/23/08 Section: News
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Jamie Leigh Momeyer, a sophomore from Athens, was charged with taking $500 from her roommate Matthew Waldrop on Aug. 24.
"It's really unfortunate that it happened," Momeyer said Monday in a phone interview. "I wasn't even at my apartment the entire time it happened and I'm getting blamed for it."
Cathy Brucheit, Waldrop's mother, said Waldrop was living with Momeyer and her boyfriend, Steven Whalen, when the incident occurred. Waldrop was subleasing the apartment, so his name did not appear on the lease. When the incident occurred, Brucheit was in Athens visiting her son.
"I was coming up to pick up my son for dinner," Brucheit said Monday in a phone interview. "He was supposed to pay me back $500 for his portion of the rent because his paycheck came in after [rent was due]," she said.
Brucheit said her son left the cash in an envelope in his bedroom around 11 p.m. before he went to work. Waldrop told police that when he came to get it the following day, it was gone. Brucheit said she confronted Whalen and told him he was the primary suspect in the theft. They "came to an instant parting of ways," she said.
Property manager, Brandon Williams, called Athens-Clarke County police at the time of the incident, wanting three people removed from the property. Matthew Waldrop, Cathy Brucheit and her daughter Shelley Little were barred from the property for two years.
Momeyer said she will plead not guilty to the charges.
"We will see if it is either dropped or taken to trial," she said.
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hmm, lets think
posted 9/23/08 @ 6:34 AM EST
Sounds like someone just didn't want to pay mom back for the money.
They can't prove the other two took it, so there is not point in filing charges. (Continued…)
CoastalDawg
posted 9/23/08 @ 12:07 PM EST
The incident report doesn't seem to back up an arrest - it is basically a complaint from the property representative. Without more proof, this case doesn't seem to be one that will stand up in court and doesn't speak to the good choices that the victim made, either in room mates or in leaving $500 in an envelope just laying around the apartment. (Continued…)
potential_juror
posted 9/23/08 @ 12:42 PM EST
Leaving $500 laying around and the cops are going to charge someone with theft? Let's see...who could have taken it...roommates, friends of roommates, maintenance man, pest control, landlord, anonymous stranger, OJ Simpson, the list goes on. (Continued…)
r2
posted 9/23/08 @ 1:40 PM EST
The detectives reports are not public record untill the case is closed in court which is why they are not posted here. There is way more to this case including a confession to detectives which is why the arrests were made. (Continued…)
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