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Bethel Park librarian returns, surrenders to police
Tuesday, March 02, 1999 By Mary Niederberger, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Fugitive librarian Dorothy "Dot" Corbett turned herself in to Bethel Park police late yesterday afternoon, moments after getting off a plane at Pittsburgh International Airport.
Bethel Park Police Chief Ed Felicetti said Corbett had been in Jacksonville, Fla. She had contacted her husband, Charles, on Sunday and told him she wanted to turn herself in, said Detective Frank Marks.
Her husband called police, and he and officers met her at the airport.
On Thursday, police issued a warrant for her arrest on six counts each of theft, theft by deception and receiving stolen property in connection with $27,500 missing from a library account.
Marks said Corbett had traveled alone, but police did not offer any other details about Corbett's disappearance.
Charles Corbett said last night the family would have no comment.
Corbett was arraigned before District Justice Susanne Kimberland and was released after she posted bond, which was 10 percent of $20,000.
Police said Corbett wrote six checks between 1996 and 1998 totaling $27,500 to a company called the Library Bureau, which sells furniture and equipment to libraries. Detectives determined, however, the company never made any sales to Bethel Park Library.
After getting library board officers to sign the checks, police said, Corbett deposited them into an account she opened at Mellon Bank. Police believe the missing money came out of an account that held funds the library received from the Regional Asset District.
Corbett disappeared Feb. 16 after telling colleagues at the Bethel Park Public Library she planned to attend meetings in Dormont and Oakland. The meetings were fictitious. She was supposed to meet with members of the library board who wanted to question her about the missing checks that day.
She had been the director of the library for 16 years.
Both the municipality of Bethel Park and the Bethel Park library board have hired auditors to audit all library accounts.
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