Maury County Woman Nabbed, Accused of Stealing from Her Grandmother in TBI Theft Case

NASHVILLE – Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have obtained an indictment for a Santa Fe woman accused of stealing more than a quarter of a million dollars from her grandmother.

At the request of 22nd District Attorney General Brent Cooper, TBI Special Agents began investigating Charlotte Watts on February 3rd. During the course of the investigation, Agents developed information that from November 2012 through February 2014, while living with and acting as caretaker and power of attorney for her grandmother, Watts stole more than $250,000 from her.

On Thursday, a Maury County Grand Jury indicted the 43-year-old on one count of Theft Over $250,000. Today, a TBI Agent arrested Watts and booked her into the Maury County Jail, where at the time of this release, she was being held on $60,000 bond.