"Mayor Tamara Wallace released a letter to local newspapers on Sunday, Oct. 5, in which she said her guilt, shame and grief over the embezzlement drove her to attempt suicide on Sept. 11, and she had spent the subsequent weeks in mental health treatment. She said she had in effect, turned herself in for the extended theft from Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, where she worked as an administrator. She didn't say how much she had taken but said she planned to repay it."
"The day after Wallace's announcement, the sheriff's office in Nevada's Douglas County reported that South Lake Tahoe's mayor pro tem, Cody Bass, had been arrested the previous month after a physical altercation with a restaurant employee. The arrest report, cited by the online news site South Tahoe Now, said Bass had shown up in the late hours of Sept. 25 at Lake Tahoe AleWorx, from which he had earlier been ejected, and threatened an employee there."
South Lake Tahoe's mayor, Tamara Wallace, admitted to embezzling from Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church, said guilt led to a suicide attempt on Sept. 11, and she spent subsequent weeks in mental health treatment. She said she effectively turned herself in, did not disclose the amount taken, and said she planned to repay it; as of Monday the El Dorado County district attorney had not announced charges. Mayor pro tem Cody Bass was arrested after a late-night altercation at Lake Tahoe AleWorx on Sept. 25 and faces misdemeanor trespassing and harassment charges with a Dec. 22 court date. Both Wallace and Bass are serving second terms on the five-member city council after first being elected in 2018. Bass had a prior 2021 arrest related to DUI and drug possession and earlier served a year as the city's mayor.
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