GRIMES CO. EMPLOYEE ARRESTED ON THEFT CHARGE AGAINST GRIMES CO. FAIR ASSOCIATION

  

A Grimes County court clerk has been fired after being charged with theft against a nonprofit organization.

54-year-old Donna Becker-Busse turned herself in earlier this month, after authorities issued a warrant for her arrest on a misdemeanor charge of theft of $200 from a nonprofit.

The offense comes from late May, when Grimes County Sheriff’s investigators were contacted by a member of the Grimes County Fair Association. The member told investigators the organization had been granted a $200 H-E-B gift card to its Creative Arts Division in early May, but the card never arrived.

According to investigators, the individual was told by H-E-B’s corporate office three weeks past the card’s expected arrival date that the card had already been used at the H-E-B in College Station on William D. Fitch Parkway. Through investigation, they learned the arts division shares a mailbox space with an office of a justice of the peace, and approached Becker-Busse about the card in early June.

Becker-Busse reportedly told investigators she had spent money from an H-E-B gift card, but found the card in the parking lot of a College Station business. Investigators determined the story she told was not true.

Becker-Busse had been employed as a clerk at the Precinct Three Justice of the Peace Office in Navasota.

The offense is punishable by up to a year in jail, and a maximum $4,000 fine. Becker-Busse was released on bond from the Grimes County Jail the day of her arrest.