Former DPS employee arrested for embezzlement

A former Duncan Public Schools employee and her husband face felony charges for allegedly selling school district vehicles without compensating the district.

According to the court records filed on Oct. 17, Lee Ann Millan has been charged with embezzlement and her husband, Marco Millan, has been charged with obtaining by false pretenses.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) had been requested to conduct an investigation in March into an alleged embezzlement when the school officials discovered approximately 24 vehicles that were missing from the transportation department.

A title history check showed that many of the vehicles had been sold and registered to private citizens when Lee Ann Millan was transportation director from 2016-23.

One witness told OSBI investigators that he saw an advertisement on social media that Duncan Public Schools had vehicles for sale in April 2023. The witness said he contacted his brother-in-law Marco Millan, because he knew his wife was the transportation director. Green said he placed an $800 bid for a pickup truck and Marco Millan called him back a short time later, saying he had won the bid. However, the witness was not pleased with the truck after seeing it and returned the truck and got his money back. 

The vehicle was allegedly sold months later to another person. The money was never turned into the school. According to the affidavit, Lee Ann Millan admitted to investigators to selling the vehicle to the witness and notarizing the title.

Another witness reported that she had bought a vehicle from Lee Ann Millan in April 2021 after being contacted on Facebook about the witness’ post about needing a vehicle.  She said she met Millan at her home and paid her $2,000 for a car. The vehicle was owned by Duncan Public Schools. According to the affidavit, Millan admitted to investigators selling the car but did not have an answer for why the money was never given to the school system.

A Duncan Public Schools official said that financial transactions for the district came through her office but that her department had not received any money for the sale of transportation department vehicles sold in 2019, 2020, 2022, or 2023. 

Another witness said he bought five buses from the transportation department in 2023. A district employee took the money from the witness and gave it to Millan, who then gave the vehicle titles to the employee to return to the buyer. According to the affidavit, Millan admitted the employee gave her the money from the buyer but had no explanation why the money was never given to the district.

A total of 29 vehicles were found to have been sold by the transportation department without any funds having been given to the school system, according to court records. The total of the vehicles that had been re-titled, and purchase prices that could be confirmed was $26,837.