Unalaska, AK – Just a week after her public apology appeared in the Dutch Harbor Fisherman, Cindy Gay Jones of Unalaska has received a summons regarding financial improprieties committed while bookkeeper for the non-profit Unalaska Senior Citizens.

In her capacity as bookkeeper for the group, Jones allegedly began siphoning senior center funds starting in December of last year. Over the course of five months, Jones stole over $8,000 from the group, which operates a lunch program and the Father Ishmael Gromoff Senior Center. She used that money to purchase cocaine and pay off bills.

When Unalaska police confronted her about the missing funds, Jones admitted that she had taken money from the Unalaska Senior Citizens that had been earned through fundraisers, game functions, and lunch money collection.

Yesterday, the arraignment was set for November 2. Jones will be facing charges on 12 counts of fraud, forgery and theft - 9 of them felonies. Because Jones is not consider to be a flight risk or dangerous to the community, no warrant was issued and no arrest was conducted.

Correction: This story previously read that Jones was a bookkeeper for the Father Ishmael Gromoff Senior Center, which is operated by the Aleutian Housing Authority. She served as bookkeeper for Unalaskan Senior Citizens, a non-profit group which rents space in the center.