ACCORDING TO A REPORT FROM THE CROSSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT: On Saturday, Officer Amy Sherrill was dispatched to a residence on 1st Street regarding a theft. Upon arriving, the officer spoke with a woman who said that her recent ex-boyfriend, Austin Woodard, had used her smartphone to access the Cash App program and sent $3,000 to his account.

She provided the officer the transaction number, and after transferring the money to himself, Woodard left the house.

The victim and her family were unsure of where Woodard had gone because he didn’t have a vehicle. The victim told the officers that he had been planning to return to his family in Wisconsin or Illinois as they’d broken up, and he wanted to leave the area.

She also warned Officer Sherrill that Woodard was a convicted felon and had a firearm, possibly a revolver. The victims showed the officer a message between herself and Woodard after he’d stolen the money from her account.

In the messages, the victim asked if he had taken his money, and he responded by asking if she expected him to be homeless and hungry. They exchanged a few more messages, and he replied. “Now, you can tell everyone I’m the worst dad, and I stole from y’all. You’re going to stay the good guy, don’t worry.”

The victim showed where she had reported the transaction as being fraudulent to Cash App, and it is currently under review.

Woodard knowingly used the victim’s smart’s phone to fraudulently represent himself as being her and transferred himself money from her account, thus depriving her of those funds. Officers had no contact with Woodard around his residence or the bus stop.

Officer Sherrill went to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s offices, where two warrants for theft of property and computer computer crime/implicit consent to access were taken against Woodard.