Hiawatha board member charged
HIAWATHA — A former board member for a northeast Kansas chamber of commerce has been charged with embezzling from the organization.
The St. Joseph News-Press reports that felony theft, criminal use of a financial card and identity fraud charges were filed Friday in Brown County against 42-year-old Beth Mikita. She was the Hiawatha Chamber of Commerce’s treasurer from February 2013 to May 2015. It wasn’t immediately known if she had an attorney.
She was arrested Thursday night following a review ...