Charter school founder arrested.

Charter school founder arrested. A SAN BERNARDINO San Bernardino, city, United StatesSan Bernardino(săn bûr'nədē`nō), city (1990 pop. 164,164), seat of San Bernardino co., S Calif., at the foot of the San Bernardino Mts.; inc. 1854. COUNTY GRAND JURY RECENTLY INDICTED INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. Charles StevenCox, the founder of the California Charter Academy, charging him withgrand theft of nearly $5.5 million and misappropriation misappropriationn. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any of school funds.Hesperia City Councilman Tad Honeycutt was also indicted. Cox built the California Charter Academy into a network of 60campuses serving more than 10,000 students from Yuba City Yuba City(y`bə), town (1990 pop. 27,437), seat of Sutter co., N central Calif., on the Feather River; founded 1849 during the gold rush; inc. 1908. to ChulaVista. A state audit alleged that Cox misused school funds to lavishlypay himself, friends and family and to buy luxuries such as spaservices. District Attorney Michael A. Ramos says the "truevictims" were the students left to find new schools when thecharter academy abruptly closed in 2004.