Leslie S. (Sherdae) Parker, the city clerk of Goodwater, was arrested today by special agents of the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Division, Attorney General Luther Strange announced today.

Acting on a complaint from a concerned citizen, the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Division obtained evidence showing that between 2013 and December 2015 the 27-year-old Parker, who lives in Sylacauga, manipulated the Goodwater’s payroll system to pay herself at least $150,000 more than her salary.  Although she was not entitled to vacation pay, sick pay, holiday pay, or overtime pay, she entered false hours in those categories into the city’s payroll system in order to increase her paycheck.