Manalapan Police Investigate Missing PTA Money

MANALAPAN, NJ — Manalapan police are investigating a report of money missing from the Lafayette Mills School PTA, police confirmed to Patch on Monday morning.

Someone filed a complaint with police to report the money was missing. Police would not tell Patch how much money was reported missing, only that they were actively investigating.

Lafayette Mills is an elementary school.

"We do have a reported incident involving alleged missing money from the Lafayette Mills School PTA," said Capt. Thomas Barstow. "It is an active investigation at this time, and I have no further information that I can provide to you until the investigation has concluded."

The six members of the PTA declined to speak to the Asbury Park Press when asked, citing the ongoing investigation.

According to the Asbury Park Press, about five years ago, money was stolen by a PTA member in another school at the Manalapan-Englishtown Regional School District. A former treasurer at Pine Brook School, Vivian Pudder, pleaded guilty to theft and forgery after $26,727 went missing from the PTA's account there.

She was sentenced to five years of probation and the school district was reimbursed.

Photo: Lafayette Mills school on Maxwell Lane in Manalapan/Google Earth