DECATUR, Ala. — Two men who left the employment of Decatur City Schools in 2021 allegedly continued to use gas cards belonging to the district ever since. Police say more than $40,000 in fuel was charged on the stolen cards between May 2021 and February 2024.
Samuel Kieran Booker and Dy-Kerius Rushuan Allen turned themselves in to police earlier this month, police said. In a statement released Friday, Decatur Police said Booker and Allen face charges of fraudulent use of a credit or debit card.
Decatur City Schools says "irregular" charges were discovered in mid-February on the district's Fuelman fleet card account that were eventually traced to Booker and Allen, who police say resigned the district in April 2021. The school system says the men were once employed as maintenance workers.
Decatur City Schools Deputy Superintendent Dwight Satterfield says the district has taken several proactive measures to prevent something like this occurring again.
"We have moved the responsibility for our Fuelman account from transportation to accounting," Satterfield said in a recorded statement. "Those individuals will look at that almost on a biweekly basis. In addition, we now require all employees to enter the mileage odometer reading from their vehicles each time they make a purchase."
Fuel purchased for equipment without odometers will be similarly tracked.
DPD says multiple cards were used throughout the fraud. The case has been forwarded to the Morgan County District Attorney's Office. More charges could be filed against Booker and Allen.
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