ACOG Accountant Arrested in Theft

An accountant with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games has been charged with embezzling thousands of dollars, which he allegedly used to buy a Mercedes-Benz and a certificate of deposit.

Police said Stevie Council of Atlanta was charged with one count of theft by taking. A police report said he allegedly wrote about $60,000 in ACOG checks and deposited them in a bogus bank account, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said in Thursday’s editions.

“We have discovered there are additional losses--substantial losses,” deputy chief C.B. Jackson said. “We don’t have a total amount of money yet, but we’re still looking into it.”