A former school accounting clerk arrested last month for theft and money laundering allegedly used a Halau Lokahi Charter School bank card to rack up more than $5,200 worth of Amazon.com purchases — including several dozen rolls of design-printed duct tape — that were shipped to her Aiea home, according to court records obtained by the Hono­lulu Star-Advertiser.

Investigators with the state Attorney General’s Office subpoenaed records for 156 online purchases that Rochelle Marie Tavares made using a Bank of Hawaii debit card issued to her longtime boyfriend, Adam K. "Kealii" Bright, a former teacher at the school and son of Halau Lokahi founder Laara Allbrett.

The records reveal more details about the state’s ongoing investigation into suspected theft, money laun­dering, illegal ownership of a business, falsification of business records and tampering of government documents by former school officials.

Tavares’ Amazon purchases are separate from $102,000 in school expenses throughout 2013 and 2014 flagged as suspicious by the state Public Charter School Commission, and which prompted a raid of the Kalihi campus in November by the attorney general.

Using a personal email account and her home address, Tavares allegedly spent just over $1,000 on dozens of printed duct tape rolls — including Hello Kitty, Superman, Angry Birds and Mickey Mouse designs — along with a book, "Tape It & Make It: 101 Duct Tape Activities," and a duct tape activity kit for kids.

Her online purchases, which spanned 18 months in 2013 and 2014, also included digital projectors, a DVD player, an air-conditioning window unit, camping cots and an instant canopy.

"If these purchases were for Halau Lokahi Charter School business use, they should have been shipped to the (school’s) business address," investigators wrote in court documents. "The possible motive in Rochelle Tavares doing this was in her statement to (investigators) that Halau Lokahi Charter School does not keep inventory of their assets."

The state also subpoenaed records from the Best Buy electronics store in Aiea for items bought in 2013 using the same debit card. Two MacBook Air laptops and an external hard drive were purchased at the store, with customer reward points awarded to Tavares’ Best Buy account.

During a recent search of the school premises, staff who were shown a list of the purchases told investigators the school didn’t have designer duct tape, iPads, a window air-conditioning unit or other items.

The Attorney General’s Office then executed a search warrant Feb. 10 at the Aiea home of Tavares and Bright, who have five children together. They confiscated six iPads, two MacBook laptops, a Mac desktop, a tablet computer and three dozen rolls of printed duct tape. Many of the other items were not recovered.

That morning, sheriff’s deputies arrested Tavares on suspicion of first-degree theft, money laundering and illegal ownership or operation of a business. Bright and Allbrett also were arrested on suspicion of the same charges a few weeks earlier, but none had been formally charged as of last week.

Tavares initially was brought in for questioning in late December as a witness for the ongoing case. She told investigators she was hired by Allbrett in 2001 as the school’s accounts payable clerk.

Tavares said that before working at the school she had no accounting experience but was "qualified for the position because she was able to pay the bills at her house," according to court documents.

She acknowledged knowing the school’s bank card was strictly for business purchases, and stated she "never used Halau Lokahi Charter School assets for her personal use."

The school had a policy that debit cards could be used only if an approved vendor didn’t accept business checks or for approved emergency purchases.

Investigators flagged nearly 400 "suspicious" purchases made with Bright’s debit card throughout 2013 and 2014. The charges included purchases at various gas stations, restaurants and a Kalihi karaoke bar; cash withdrawals; payments for traffic tickets; and Apple iTunes purchases.

When investigators interrogated Bright last month, he admitted that on "various occasions" he used the debit card to purchase gas for his personal vehicle. He also said he bought a $1,022 Apple laptop that he kept after he was terminated from the school. He turned over the laptop as evidence.

Tavares and Bright were terminated from the school in December as part of a restructuring plan that laid off all nonessential employees.

Allbrett, who founded the Hawaiian culture-focused charter school in 2001, was forced to step down as director last summer after the school’s money troubles came to light.

Charter schools are largely funded with taxpayer dollars but are independently run under contracts with the state Charter School Commission and report to their own governing board.

During an audit of the school’s finances last year, the commission staff discovered the school’s financial records were incomplete and found "numerous transactions that appeared to be suspicious and possible theft" of public funds, court documents said.

Although the commission in January voted to withhold funding and begin shutting down the insolvent school, a group of volunteers continues to teach several dozen students.