Woman stole from memorial fund for slain OSU student, police say

A South Side woman is accused of cashing a counterfeit check that fraudulently withdrew $700 from the memorial fund for Reagan Tokes, the Ohio State University student who was slain.

Marsha Ellen Frazier, 47, made her first appearance in court Wednesday on a forgery charge. Frazier is accused of going into the Checksmart, at 1015 N. High St. in the Short North, on July 28, where she cashed a check for $700 in the name of Darrell Frazier, which drew from the memorial fund account. Authorities say she had somehow obtained the account number.

Video from the store showed that Marsha Frazier had cashed the check.

The Reagan Delaney Tokes Memorial Fund was set up by her parents to provide scholarships to students to honor her memory. Tokes was kidnapped, raped and shot to death in February. Brian Golsby, 29, who was on parole with an ankle monitor after a six-year prison sentence for kidnapping and attempted rape of a Grove City woman, has been charged with aggravated murder with death penalty specifications and 17 other charges in Tokes’ slaying. He is awaiting trial.

Lisa McCrary-Tokes, Reagan’s mother, told WBNS-TV (Channel 10), that she had noticed irregularities with the account and notified her local police department in Maumee, a Toledo suburb. Maumee police contacted Columbus police, who then tracked the case. Tanya Askew, the public defender representing Frazier, said in court that her client was tricked into cashing the check and is willing to cooperate with authorities, according to WBNS-TV.