A former top aide to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson accused of using a city-issued credit card for personal purchases was arrested Tuesday.
Lisa Serna-Mayorga, daughter of former Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna, was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on charges of misappropriation of public funds, grand theft of public funds, forgery and making or drawing worthless checks, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office said in a news release.
Serna-Mayorga was taken into custody by Sacramento police officers. Her bail was set at $50,000.
Serna-Mayorga, who resigned in July, allegedly used a Sacramento City credit card from July 2009 to June 2012 for personal items that totaled more than $19,000, according to a criminal complaint.
Some of the items Serna-Mayorga is accused of charging to the city credit card include Disneyland trips, hotels in Bodega Bay and Monterey, grocery bills, movies and iTunes games, according to court documents.
Serna-Mayorga had worked as the council operations manager before being appointed to a position in the mayor?s office just weeks before the allegations surfaced.
The alleged credit card misuse was linked to her tenure as a council operations manager.
Serna-Mayorga's brother, Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna, said in a released statement: "I loved my sister before this incident, I love her now, and I will continue to do so as she deals with this."
In June, an internal audit found that Serna-Mayorga did not submit the required paperwork for documenting purchases. She later admitted that some of the purchases on the city card were personal, according to the district attorney's office.
Serna-Mayorga is also accused of writing three checks worth more than $9,000 to the city of Sacramento after the internal audit, but stop payments were put on the checks before they could be deposited by the city.
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