MPD: Employee steals over $200k from non-profit to pay bills
by: Raven Moore
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A woman is in police custody after she allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Memphis non-profit.
On April 28, the interim executive director of a local non-profit filed a report with the Memphis Police Department.
He told officers that an internal audit allegedly showed that one of the non-profit’s employees, Roshaunda Burwell, had been paying her personal credit cards and MLGW bills with the non-profit’s First Horizon account without authorization between January 2022 and April 2025.
Burwell was in charge of the non-profit’s finances.
Investigators obtained records from American Express, Chase and MLGW, which showed that Burwell had used the non-profit’s bank account to pay $37,290.95 to American Express, $180,180.10 to Chase and $5,732 to MLGW (totaling $223,203.05).
Burwell has been charged with theft of property $60,000-$250,000.
She was released on bond and is set to stand before a judge on Monday.
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