State Auditor Stacey Pickering hand delivered the board of supervisors a check for more than a quarter million dollars recovered from jailed former Circuit Clerk Shelly Ashley-Palmertree.

Pickering presented the check for $279,122.82 Monday during the regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

“This is a good thing getting to return these funds that were embezzled. It’s something our office worked very aggressively to do against the bonding companies and the individuals. We’re glad that we’ve got that check to give you today,” Pickering told supervisors.

Each of the five supervisors personally thanked Pickering and his office for recovering the money.

“We appreciate you being able to follow up on this and seeing that the citizens of Warren County receive what’s owed to them,” District 1 Supervisor John Arnold said.

Palmertree is presently serving a five-year prison sentence in the Central Mississippi Satellite Facility for women in Flowood for embezzling $12,000 from her office’s civil and criminal accounts in 2012.