SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Police in Springfield, Mo., are investigating the suspected embezzlement of more than $500,000 from a nursing school operated jointly by a Baptist university and a Catholic hospital.
The Springfield News-Leader reported March 11 that St. John’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences told police about the missing money March 5.
The college is operated in partnership between St. John’s Mercy Health System and Southwest Baptist University, a four-year school with 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students in nearby Bolivar, Mo.
The paper quoted a representative of the nursing school who said one employee had been fired and the matter turned over to police. The article quoted an officer who said an arrest had been made, but the suspect’s name was being withheld until charges are filed.
A television station said the same suspect is also being investigated for theft from a public-school parent-teacher organization in the Springfield suburb of Republic, Mo.
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