Court proceedings will continue next year for a Georgia man accused in Lyon County District Court of being involved in a retail fraud ring.
Dwayne Rhoden is set for a pretrial hearing Jan. 16 after a preliminary hearing this week.
Rhoden was named as a co-defendant in a case involving Demetrius Odom, age 30 of Decader, Georgia. The Kansas Attorney General’s Office mentioned both as involved in stealing from several liquor stores across Kansas, including four in Emporia. Both are charged with identity theft, criminal use of a financial card and conspiracy to commit criminal use of a financial card. Odom’s next court appearance is pending.
Attorney General Kris Kobach says 31-year-old Jahzavya White of Stone Mountain, Georgia, has been sentenced to 18 months of probation and nearly $12,000 in restitution in Lyon County District Court earlier this year. White was listed as part of “a coordinated scheme to defraud multiple liquor stores in Lyon County,” but the Attorney General’s Office has not said whether White was part of the case involving Odom and Rhoden and there are no official connections on the District Court Public Access Portal.
