Trinity Christian coach accused of embezzling more than $300,000 [View all]

FAYETTEVILLE -- The basketball coach and athletic director at Trinity Christian School was arrested Monday on charges that he embezzled more than $300,000 from the religious organization.

Heath Curtis Vandevender, 48, of the 900 block of Westland Ridge Road, is accused of embezzling and converting to his own use state withholding taxes totaling $388,422 while he was vice president at Truth Outreach Center from 2008 to 2015, according to a news release by the N.C. Department of Revenue.

The center also is known as Trinity Community Services in Fayetteville.

Vandevender has been the varsity boys' basketball coach and athletic director at Trinity Christian, which is part of the organization.

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