Accused of stealing more than $31,000 from the mental health advocacy group she directed, a Wyoming lobbyist and former mayor of Laramie faces seven felony theft charges and one felony forgery charge.
Each of the eight counts is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines.
Andi Summerville served previously as the mayor of Laramie and a city council member.
She was for years the executive director of the Wyoming Association of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (WAMHSAC) and advocated for state funding of a suicide hotline, drug court treatment alternatives in criminal cases and immunity for people reporting drug overdoses.
She was booked Tuesday into the Albany County Detention Center and was released Wednesday morning, the jail confirmed to Cowboy State Daily.
Summerville's attorney, Tom Fleener, told Cowboy State Daily in a Thursday text message that she maintains her innocence.
"Ms. Summerville maintains that she is innocent of these charges and is looking forward to her day in court," wrote Fleener. "All of these charges largely stem from issues with her expense reimbursements of which there was nothing improper."
Had Access
Laramie Police Department Investigations Sgt. Jacob Bury on Oct. 13 started investigating a report by the current president of WAMHSAC regarding suspected misuse of the organization’s funds by its executive director, Andrea Summerville, Bury wrote in an evidentiary affidavit.
The affidavit, along with Summerville’s charges, was filed Tuesday in Laramie Circuit Court.
WAMHSAC is a nonprofit organization without a physical office. Summerville served as its sole paid employee and was responsible for all financial, administrative and operational tasks.
Due to the remote nature of her duties, she primarily worked from home, wrote Bury.
The president said that in July 2024 following a leadership transition within the group’s board of directors, Summerville was given full electronic access to the organization’s bank account at First Interstate Bank and became the sole possessor of the debit card tied to that account, the affidavit says.
After that, Board members said, Summerville was the only person with active access to the group’s financial accounts.
The board relied on financial information she shared via screen-sharing, “as no physical statements or independent accesses were provided,” wrote Bury.
During a review of WAMHSAC’s finances in late September 2025, the board identified several expenditures that seemed unrelated to organizational business, the affidavit says.
Those included, allegedly:
• $419.38 at Target in November 2024
• $432.30 at the “Creative Goods Broadway Merch Shop NYC” that same month
• $106.43 at Sea Life, a Minnesota aquarium, in February 2025
• $573.06 in February at the Mall of America in Minnesota, Build-A-Bear Workshop, the LEGO store and Macy’s
• $469.46 at the Omaha Zoo in Nebraska in May
• $441.07 at Dick’s Sporting Goods in Broomfield, Colorado, in April
• $433.99, also at that sporting goods store in June
No Meetings There, Board Says
The board confirmed WAMHSAC held no meetings or events in those places during that timeframe, the affidavit says.
Summerville acknowledged the purchases when speaking with the group president and said she’d accidentally used the organization’s debit card during personal trips and claimed she’d reimbursed the account afterward, Bury’s narrative says.
A review of WAMHSAC’s bank statements revealed no deposits or transfers matching any reimbursement, the investigator added. “No evidence of repayment was located in any of the accounting or banking documents provided by the organization.”
The total amount Summerville spent on unauthorized purchases with the debit card was $2,866.69, the affidavit says.
Checks Now
Bury wrote that he also found six checks totaling $28,512.87, written directly from the WAMHSAC account to Summerville and labeled as “expense,” “expense report” or “exp.”
“The back of each check was endorsed with a signature that appeared to match the one on the front,” wrote Bury. “No receipts, invoices or supporting records were located to justify any of these payments.”
Those checks were, allegedly:
• An Aug. 30, 2024 check for $5,353.79
• An Oct. 9, 2024, check for $2,763.49
• A Feb. 28 check for $6,316.66
• A May 2 check for $5,378.20
• A May 21 check for $4,861.52
• A Sept. 3 check for $3,839.21
Across all budgets, the investigator continued, WAMHSAC allotted “modest” amounts for routine expenses like travel, office supplies, professional development, meals and administrative costs.
“None of the budgets contained a category for large executive reimbursements, nor did any include line-item allocations that would correspond to payments of several thousands of dollars at a time to the Executive Director," Bury wrote.
The investigator wrote that Summerville’s “self-issued checks” exceeded the entire organization’s annual travel budget by more than $11,000 and far surpassed every other discretionary category.
Bury references a search warrant deployed on Summerville’s home.
“Budgets recovered” during that search uncovered no historical pattern of reimbursements of that size, the affidavit says, adding that the documents show the checks weren’t consistent with WAMHSAC’s planned or authorized spending.
Summerville used the debit card for routine, business-related expenses, Bury asserted — and then concluded that there’s “no indication” the checks she allegedly wrote to herself were to reimburse herself for those expenses.
The affidavit says the board on Oct. 3 requested that Summerville provide all receipts for expenditures from July 2024 to October 2025, but she didn’t produce those receipts.
She was placed on administrative leave and later terminated, Bury added.
The investigator wrote that her employment contract says she may only be reimbursed for reasonable business expenses after providing acceptable supporting documentation – and that she may enter into financial commitments only with the board’s consent.
WAMHSAC’s bylaws require board oversight of the executive director and mandate annual financial reviews. Board members’ statements confirm no business, reimbursements or additional compensation were authorized corresponding to the checks written to Summerville, the document says.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
