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On February 2, 1949, the article to the right appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune. A newly hired bookkeeper steals at least $8,000 from a Toledo Packard dealer.
In August of 2010, the former business manager of a large dealership in New Zealand began a four year jail sentance for stealing 1.3 million dollars. She had been emoloyed at the dealership since 2005 and admitted to 67 fraud and theft charges.
These examples show that nothing really changes in the automotive industry. Car and truck dealerships, no matter where they are located, are prime candidates for internal theft and the newest opportunity, personal ID theft.
The faltering economy has forced dealers to take a harder look at what is really going on in their business.
This site will show the seriousness of current dealership thefts, with examples and methods of crimes againts the dealer. It will also describe products and processes for employee hiring and monitoring.
Records in support of the charges show that she stole more than $89,000 by either writing checks to herself, to a former boyfriend, or for expenses that were hers and not business expenses.
A former financial manager of an Apache Junction (AZ) auto dealership is facing theft and fraud-related charges for allegedly stealing more than $24,000. After deliberating for a little more than two hours, a Pennington County (SD) jury found Stacey T. guilty Friday of embezzling more than $156,000 from City Wide Auto, where she worked as a bookkeeper. A Guilford County man was arrested today on charges he embezzled nearly $70,000 from a Raleigh CarMax, according to arrest warrants filed in the Wake County Magistrate's Office. Dothan police arrested an Ashford woman on Monday on a charge she stole $677.10 from her employer, a local car dealership and charged her with felony second-degree theft of property. A former officer manager at Jim Trenary Chevrolet in Troy, Mo., was sentenced Friday to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution for embezzling $247,000 from the dealership, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Dealer wanted tougher sentence in Hannibal theft
Boland said an inventory of the parts department showed about $500,000 was missing during a six-year period when Cookson was employed at the business. Cookson was fired Nov. 12, 2008, after working at the dealership for 20 years. He now works at an auto glass business.
Alleged Patterson Toyota embezzler indicted by jury
A Surry County grand jury issued indictments this week against a Dobson woman accused of embezzling more than $1 million from an auto dealership in Mount Airy.
Chestnut Ridge woman accused of $200G theft from Kolb Subaru
The dealership's audit was unable to conclude where all the money had gone and that the fate of the remaining $1.8 million might never be determined. He said the possibility exists that Grabbe may be found to have taken more than the $200,609 that she is accused of stealing.
How Bay woman scammed $1.3 million (New Zealand)
Between September 2006 and February this year, she made 60 fraudulent check deposits totalling $1,315,807.70 and between December 2009 and January this year she also stole $46,685 in cash given to her by customers for vehicle purchases or leases of vehicles.
Ex-Jim Trenary Chevrolet employee gets jail time
Second Woman Sentenced In Dealership Theft
For the second time in almost a month a former office worker at Dave Knapp Ford was sentenced for embezzling from her employer.
Former John Deere employee charged with 44 counts of theft
Graves County officers found 60-year-old Frank M. of Martin, Tennessee took home $235,000 throughout 2008 and 2009 from Hutson, Inc. in Mayfield. Investigators have only looked into about 30 percent of the transactions that Moseley was involved in, according to the Graves County Sheriff's Office.
West Milton Woman Sentenced In Dealership Theft
Doris C., 66, of West Milton, was charged with theft. She was the general manager of Dave Knapp Ford in Greenville at the time of theft. Prosecutors said the theft is a minimum of $380,000.
