Aug 2018 – A former employee of Luzerne County Community College was arrested today after money went missing from one of the departments at the college.Eyewitness News was the only news crew there when Melissa Sue Taney turned herself into Nanticoke police on Wednesday. She had no comment when we asked if she denied or…
Jan 11, 2018 – Law enforcement agents extracted a former Flushing dental office manager and hauled her to court on charges that she allegedly stole thousands in insurance payments to the clinic. Prosecutors said that Manhattan’s Katerin Rochet, 37, was picked up on Jan. 9 on a nine-count indictment charging her with third-degree grand larceny,…
Sep 20, 2018 – A Franklin County woman was charged Friday for fraudulently crediting refunds from her employer, a Sunset Hills pediatric dental practice, to her own credit cards. (“I frequently encounter this scheme during audits.” – William (Bill) Hiltz BSc MBA CET) Sandra S. Howell, 49, Villa Ridge, was charged in St. Louis County Circuit…
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – An account manager for a local dental corporation is accused of abusing her power and stealing more than $84,000 from customers. The scam allegedly went on for five years. Essence Boatwright, 40, was an account manager for Carestream Dental. From May 2012 to January 2017, Boatwright allegedly used her position to steal…
FORT PIERCE (Nov 2018) — Two women accused in a roughly $170,000 embezzlement case at Ocean Chiropractic and Health Center each were arrested on an organized fraud charge, according to records released Wednesday. Geneva Jo Moreira Da Silva, 57, and Kala Rihanna Thumma, 27, w ere arrested Tuesday after a Fort Pierce police investigation. A co-owner…
Jan. 4, 2019 Robin Bernazzani embezzled from Dental Associates of the Southwest A Durango woman was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for stealing more than half a million dollars from her former employer. Robin Bernazzani pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $500,000 from Dental Associates of the Southwest, 801 Florida Road, over a…
A Juneau dental assistant was sentenced to serve one year in prison on Thursday for illegally writing her boyfriend prescriptions for painkillers. Juneau Superior Court Judge Philip Pallenberg imposed four years of prison with three suspended for Donya R. Owens, 29. Owens pleaded guilty in April to three felony drug charges for calling in hydrocodone…
August 2017 The woman charged with murdering her businessman husband more than 20 years ago has finally appeared in court in New York this week. Roslyn Pilmar, 60, and her brother Evan Wald, 43, are accused of murdering her husband Howard Pilmar outside his Manhattan office in 1996. Howard Pilmar, 40, was stabbed 25 times…
Marilynn “Missy” Armstrong of Paris was booked into the Lamar County Jail on Friday, April 21, 2017, for theft from her employer. Armstrong was employed at Lee Crawford Dental (located on Pine Mill Rd.) for almost 10 years until November 2016 when she was confronted for allegedly embezzling finances and immediately terminated. Armstrong was in charge of…
A federal judge on Thursday told Jill Bowser that her drug addiction does not excuse her “outrageous conduct” of embezzlement and forging prescriptions and sent her away for 21 months.