The former mayor of the northern Iowa town of Swaledale is charged with taking 65-thousand dollars from a Rockwell church. Rockwell police chief Barry Mackey says Susan Lyles has been charged with four counts of first-degree theft.
Mackey says according to a complaint filed in Cerro Gordo County District Court on Wednesday, Lyles allegedly diverted $65,000 of funds to her own personal use while being the treasurer of the First Baptist Church in Rockwell between 2003 and 2006. Lyles is being held in the Cerro Gordo County Jail on $52,000 bond.