The former treasurer of a Coral Springs Broward County charter school’s Parent Teacher Organization is facing a grand theft charge after allegedly taking $40,000 from the group’s bank account and using it for personal purchases, according to police.
Rebecca Sanon, 50, of Tamarac, was the PTO treasurer for Imagine School at Broward in Coral Springs from August 2020 to August 2024. Once her tenure ended, other PTO members filed a complaint after finding there was only $1,000 in the group’s bank account, meaning about $17,000 was missing, but the investigation found that a total of $44,000 was the actual amount lost, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Sanon is accused of withdrawing more than $35,000 from ATMs, nearly $5,000 inside bank branches and spending about $3,000 in transactions using the PTO’s debit card, including restaurants, big-box and grocery stores, Uber and a Florida Power & Light bill for her Tamarac apartment, the affidavit said. Since the first instance in October 2021, nearly 200 fraudulent transactions were made in total, according to the affidavit.
Coral Springs Police detectives met with Sanon in January for an interview. She told them she had access to the PTO’s bank account and debit card and “confirmed withdrawing funds from the ATM because she was having a difficult time,” the affidavit said.
“She used the money to avoid being evicted and pay her rent, which was caused by a ‘bad situation,’” detectives wrote in the affidavit.
Sanon was arrested on Tuesday, court records show. She has since been released from the jail.