November 26, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
A former employee of Kwik N Ezy who stole over $18,000 in lottery tickets from the store last year was sentenced in DeKalb County Criminal Court today (Monday).
Judge Gary McKenzie presided.
47 year old Melody Ann Bandy entered a plea to theft over $10,000 and received a 6 year sentence suspended to TDOC probation. She has been granted judicial diversion and will be eligible to get her record expunged if she abides by all conditions of her probation over the 6 year term. Under the plea agreement Bandy is to make restitution of $18,717 to Kwik N Ezy. Her plans are to pay it off $400 per month.
According to the warrant, while working as an employee at Kwik N Ezy, Bandy committed the offense of theft of property by taking without paying or without consent of the store owner lottery tickets valued at approximately $18,717.00 between July 1 and October 11, 2017.