An initial hearing court date in a different venue has been set in the theft case involving Laura Mann and Kevin Bridgman.
Mann is charged with two counts of theft as a Level 6 felony while Bridgman is charged with seven counts of theft as a Level 6 felony.
The pair will appear for their initial hearing on Friday, June 29 at 9 a.m. before Special Judge Christopher Lee in Fulton Circuit Court.
According to the charging information, Mann is accused of taking a direct payment out of Jeffrey Scott Bartlett’s bank account in the amount of $2,144 in the first charge and $604.31 in the second charge. Court documents state that Bridgman took money from Jeffrey Scott Bartlett from his bank account and charges to two separate credit cards in seven different transactions in the total amount of $15,440.49.
The incidents reportedly occurred in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The charges were filed on April 6, 2018.
In an interview with The Pilot News, Laura Mann stated that Kevin Bridgman was given power of attorney that was made possible by the lawyers from Morey Law Firm, P.A. in Orlando, when Jeffrey Scott Bartlett was sentenced to prison in October of 2014. The pair was reportedly friends at the time. She further stated in The Pilot News report that Bartlett had given her permission to use the money on the two occasions in question. In the article, she said it was a verbal agreement and when the friendship had a falling out Bartlett said there wasn’t permission to use the money.
If convicted, a Level 6 felony carries a sentence of six months to 30 months in a local jurisdictional jail facility.
