
Galesburg Police on Tuesday, September 28th around noon met with the owner of Shell Express on Grand Avenue along with a supervisor for the store in regards to a store manager embezzling thousands of dollars. Shell’s owner told police she was doing an audit for the store and noticed no deposits had been made since August 21st. A total of $40,452 was unaccounted for. The deposit slips filled out by the store manager matched the missing money – it just never made it to the bank. The store manager, 53-year old Angela Jo Masters of Galesburg reported to the Public Safety Building to turn herself in. A very remorseful Masters admitted to stealing the money and vowed to pay the owner back. Masters handed police her set of keys to the store to give to the owner. She was arrested and charged with Theft $10,000 – $100,000.