A Monticello man who’s charged with stealing money to pay for his mother’s medical bills is being ordered to spend one day in prison.49-year-old Michael Arduser also got three years’ probation and has to pay a five thousand dollar fine. He’s charged with defrauding the Union Planters Bank of Monticello of nearly 30-thousand dollars as he couldn’t pay his mom’s bills and she didn’t have health insurance. Arduser reportedly admitted passing bad checks during 2000. He tried to repay some of the money by selling half of his 180-acre farm which had been in the family for several generations.
