Former RIVEROAK employee arrested for fraud

Jason Futch reporter2.riverbendnews@gmail.com On Friday, Jan. 17, a former employee at RIVEROAK Technical College was arrested on charges of larceny and forgery after allegedly cashing checks into her personal bank account. According to an anonymous source from the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO), 36-year-old Live Oak resident Katlin Westrich was arrested and charged after an audit of the Suwannee County School District (SCSD) identified discrepancies with what appeared to be payments made to contractual employees from RIVEROAK. Because the SCSD handles the payments to contractual employees and not the school itself, it threw red flags, resulting in a more in-depth investigat