{"id":1017817,"date":"2021-05-24T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1017817"},"modified":"2021-05-25T08:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:42:13","slug":"tyler-woman-indicted-for-embezzling-from-her-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1017817","title":{"rendered":"Tyler woman indicted for embezzling from her employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1017818\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/Melhart-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Tyler woman who confessed to writing more than $40,000 in checks to herself from the business that employed her has been indicted by a Smith County grand jury. According to our news partner KETK, an arrest warrant indicated Vicki Melhart, 39, wrote the checks while working for Deerbrook Storage Unit. The 107 checks were made out between October 2, 2019, and April 4, 2020. The owner of the company told police that Melhart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s job had been \u00e2\u20ac\u0153renting units, paying various bills, and taking payments.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She was fired when the owner found out that she had been writing the checks and forging his or his son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s signature. In total, the checks added up to $40,125.35.<!--more--> In an interview with police, Melhart said that she had written the checks because she was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not making enough money.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She also asked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to pay the money back to the owner instead of going to jail.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Melhart is being held in the Smith County Jail on a $50,000 bond. Her first court appearance has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Tyler woman who confessed to writing more than $40,000 in checks to herself from the business that employed her has been indicted by a Smith County grand jury. According to our news partner KETK, an arrest warrant indicated Vicki Melhart, 39, wrote the checks while working for Deerbrook Storage Unit. The 107 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1017817\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler woman indicted for embezzling from her employer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1017820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/Melhart-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler woman indicted for embezzling from her employer","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 05:19:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/Melhart-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tyler woman indicted for embezzling from her employer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017819,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017817\/revisions\/1017819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1017820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}