“There’s a lot of things they have to put together for a successful prosecution.”

Michael Comer, 45, the man accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Glenmore Community Association, has been released on $50,000 bond.

Albemarle police have charged a man who went missing July 1, but turned up Monday, with five counts of embezzlement.

Police spent Monday evening questioning the former president of Glenmore Country Club, whose disappearance July 1 eventually sparked a criminal investigation by local and federal authorities.

A second audit is being conducted following the mysterious disappearance of former Glenmore Community Association Treasurer Michael Comer.

The Albemarle County Police Department has opened a joint criminal investigation with the FBI to find out what happened to the $666,446 missing from the Glenmore Community Association’s coffers.

The missing funds are the latest twist in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Michael Comer

Association suspects treasurer who disappeared last month.

Fluvanna County authorities are searching for a man who disappeared Wednesday after leaving his home on a bicycle.

Fluvanna County authorities are searching for a man who disappeared Wednesday after leaving his home on a bicycle.

“What we have is a missing person,” Sheriff David Brooks said Tuesday, “a 45-year-old male, who for some reason or another, in my opinion, [chose] to be missing.”

The businessman who disappeared in Nelson County last week vanished the same day he was supposed to meet about an audit to answer questions about the Glenmore Community Association’s finance records, the association’s president said Monday.

Comer has been replaced as treasurer and the scope of the external audit has been “extended,” President Trevor Joscelyne said, “to review account transactions and balances both prior to and beyond the 2008 audit year.”

Investigators, who still consider 45-year-old Michael Comer a missing person, don’t suspect foul play.

WINTERGREEN — The president of Glenmore Country Club was missing in the hills and forest around Wintergreen Resort on Thursday, the target of a search that began the day before and grew increasingly intense.