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Former Salvation Army manager appears on theft charges


The former operations manager of the Salvation Army's thrift store and warehouse operations in Redding and Red Bluff pleaded not guilty Thursday to stealing about $98,000 from the charity.

Virginia Moye, 47, of Redding, appeared briefly in Shasta County Superior Court for her arraignment. Judge James Ruggiero appointed the public defender's office to represent her.According to that report, Moye admitted that she processed fraudulent refunds and voids at the thrift stores and pocketed the money. The discrepancies triggered internal audits of transactions from October 2002 to April 2007, which revealed $87,985 in unsupported voids and refunds during the days Moye was working and likely to have been closing out the registers, the report said.