Temp in Mahoning treasurer's office indicted on theft charges

YOUNGSTOWN

A temporary helper who worked in the Mahoning County Treasurer’s Office has been indicted by a county grand jury for the third time on charges linked to his job in that office last summer.

Kyheem Underwood, 19, of Jean Street, Campbell, was indicted Thursday on three counts each of theft in office, theft and receiving stolen property and six counts of forgery.

Each theft-in-office count charges him with stealing between $1,000 and $7,500 while working in an official capacity.

“One of his duties was to open and sort mail, and, in the course of doing so, he helped himself to some of those checks,” forged them and tried to cash them, county Treasurer Dan Yemma said, referring to real-estate tax-payment checks mailed to the office.

“The message that should be sent is that you will be caught. You will not get away with something like this due to the nature of the checks and balances that we have in place,” Yemma said.

Underwood was an employee of the Mahoning-Columbiana Training Association working in the county treasurer’s office and not a county employee, Yemma said.

Read more about the situation in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.