{"id":252369,"date":"2026-05-04T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=252369"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:42:39","slug":"georgia-man-accused-of-stealing-79000-from-youth-baseball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=252369","title":{"rendered":"Georgia man accused of stealing $79,000 from youth baseball league"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> 35-year-old Craig Norris was arrested Monday and charged with felony theft and financial transaction card fraud, according to Columbus police. Norris is accused of using Pioneer Little League&#8217;s bank card for personal purchases while he was the organization&#8217;s treasurer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Important:<\/strong> Police say Norris made 1,039 unauthorized charges totaling $79,609.80. Detectives identified the pattern after reviewing financial records tied to multiple businesses. The report was first filed in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By the Numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1,039 fraudulent charges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>$79,609.80 total stolen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Report filed: March 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Path Forward:<\/strong> Norris is scheduled to appear in Recorder&#8217;s Court for a preliminary hearing Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. At that hearing, a judge will decide whether there is enough evidence to move the case forward. Norris is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s Happening: 35-year-old Craig Norris was arrested Monday and charged with felony theft and financial transaction card fraud, according to Columbus police. Norris is accused of using Pioneer Little League&#8217;s bank card for personal purchases while he was the organization&#8217;s treasurer. What&#8217;s Important: Police say Norris made 1,039 unauthorized charges totaling $79,609.80. Detectives identified the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":252371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22912,22911],"class_list":["post-252369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-craig-norris","tag-pioneer-little-league","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}