A Georgia prison office manager now finds herself behind bars at the same jail she used to manage.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested former Coweta County Department of Corrections office manager Lakina Gay on theft charges, accusing her of taking tens of thousands of dollars from the county prison commissary account over several years.

What We Know:

Investigators say Gay, 49, of Newnan, Georgia, misappropriated between $50,000 and $100,000 from the commissary account between 2019 and 2023 while serving as the office manager at Coweta County Prison.

The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office requested the GBI’s help in November 2023 after discovering the missing funds.

Gay was arrested on Wednesday, August 20 and booked into the Coweta County Jail. She is charged with five counts of

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