Arrest warrant issued in embezzlement case

Cheyenne County has issued an arrest warrant for Brenda Haller for theft by deception.

On May 20, Mark Mossman, regional manager for the Scoular company out of Omaha, which buys, sells, stores and transports grain, reported an employee theft to the Cheyenne County Sheriff's Office. Mossman claimed that Brenda Haller took around $17,500 from the company.

Mossman said that Haller took the money by making alterations to company accounts, then drafting checks payable to customers on those accounts. She would then endorse the checks with the customer name and either she or her husband's name and then deposit them into her own account. She would then change the company account records to cover up the missing amounts.

Haller allegedly did this over a period of time from March 2010 to April of this year.

Cheyenne County investigators determined that Haller had been the defendant in 25 civil suits with creditors since 1998. Scoular provided investigators with evidence of Haller's alteration of account balances and theft.