Reynolds to plead "not guilty" on Wednesday
City Treasurer Mike Reynolds, who has been charged with misappropriation of public funds and two related offenses, is scheduled to appear in San Bernardino Superior Court Wednesday morning.
His attorney, Patrick Milligan, said in a telephone interview that Reynolds plans to plead innocent and will ask for future court proceedings to be pushed back to February.
The charges against Reynolds center around Reynolds' transfer of about $38,000 from the Treasurer's Trust Account to the city's general fund. Prosecutors have alleged that Reynolds sought to cover up a hole in Redlands' petty cash supplies. Milligan said Reynolds was investigating a possible accounting error and did not want the city to be short on any dollars.
Reynolds was arrested in late October after being investigated by the District Attorney's Public Integrity Unit.