D.W. v. State

ALTENBERND, Judge.

D.W., a juvenile, appeals a restitution order requiring her to repay $400 to her grandmother. We reverse this order due to procedural irregularities.

D.W. went to a store with $400 to buy her grandmother a $360 money order. After she returned from the store, the $360 money order and $40 in change from the $400 disappeared. D.W.’s mother apparently found the $360 money order at a motel room at which D.W.’s mother was staying. Law enforcement initially took custody of the money order but then returned it to D.W.’s mother. The mother claimed she put the money order in the mail…