MARIETTA - A Cobb grand jury returned indictments Thursday against former Southwest Cobb Commissioner Annette Kesting and her husband, Christian, on felony charges of theft by taking.

A date for their arraignments has not been set.

The Kestings were arrested July 24, accused of taking a pickup truck from an elderly Powder Springs man who has dementia. The arrest warrants state that the Kestings borrowed the 1993 Ford F-150 truck on June 12, and that the victim and his daughter repeatedly tried to get the Kestings to return the vehicle. The truck has since been returned to the victim, according to Cobb Police.

The Kestings were released from Cobb Jail after posting $5,700 bond the same day they were arrested.

Calls to the Kestings went unanswered Thursday afternoon, and a home telephone number has apparently been disconnected.

Annette served on the Cobb Board of Commissioners from 2004 until 2008. She lost a primary bid for re-election in 2008 to current Southwest Cobb Commissioner Woody Thompson.

Her tenure on the board was full of controversy.

Rental properties she owned in the city of Powder Springs were plagued with code violations and were eventually foreclosed upon. In March 2008, she filed for bankruptcy.

Kesting also ruffled feathers with remarks she made in February 2008 at Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Marietta during the church's black history celebration. In her speech, Kesting said the people she works with at the county are "not Christian," and that when she enters her office, she can feel "the evilness" surrounding her.

Last August, a South Carolina voodoo high priestess filed a police report in Cobb County, alleging Kesting had asked her to perform a death ritual against Thompson - and had written her bad checks. Kesting called the claims "ridiculous," saying her purse was stolen and that she had never been to South Carolina to visit a voodoo priestess.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation launched an investigation, and has turned its report over to District Attorney Pat Head. No charges have been filed in Cobb.