Ex-YSU worker arraigned on misuse of credit card

YOUNGSTOWN

A former Youngstown State University employee was arraigned today in municipal court on charges he used a university credit card to funnel over $16,000 in cash to himself.

Judge Robert Milich set bond at $10,000 for Jeffrey Butts Jr., 41, of Bennington Avenue, who was arrested earlier today and arraigned via video hookup from the Mahoning County jail on a charge of misuse of a credit card, a fourth degree felony.

A criminal complaint filed against Butts charged him with misusing the credit card from July 29 through Aug. 26 last summer.

City Prosecutor Dana Lantz said Butts was an administrative assistant in the university’s Islamic Studies department. She said he was using the card to get cash for himself for his own personal use.

Read more about the case in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.