Investigator charged with stealing from Union City couple

An investigator with the Dyersburg Police Department has been charged with stealing money out of an online account belonging to a Union City couple.

According to a press release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Cara Johnson-Peckenpaugh was charged with theft under $500. Johnson-Peckenpaugh used the money to pay her own electric bill to the Forked Deer Electric Company in Halls on Feb. 5.

The investigation was completed by TBI special agents and deputies from the Obion County Sheriff's Office.

Johnson-Pekenpaugh has been suspended without pay from the Dyersburg Police Department pending an administrative proceeding, according to the release. She was released and no bond was set.