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July 30, 2025

GBI arrests former Callaway Gardens employee for misappropriating more than $90,000 in funds

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The following was taken from a press release distributed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on July 25, 2025.

HARRIS COUNTY, Ga. – The GBI has arrested and charged Jessica Steele, age 42, of Hamilton, GA, with one count of Theft by Taking. On Tuesday, February 1, 2022, the Pine Mountain Police Department requested the GBI to conduct an investigation into theft of funds by an employee from Callaway Resort and Gardens.

Preliminary information indicates that Steele reportedly misappropriated more than $90,000 worth of funds from Callaway Gardens during her employment from January 1, 2020, to January 28, 2022.

On Monday, July 14, 2025, Steele turned herself in and was booked into the Harris County Jail, where she has since bonded out.

Anyone with any information about this investigation is encouraged to call the GBI Regional Office in Columbus at (706) 565-7888. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477), online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online, or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.

This investigation has been given to the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.

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