April 2016, LEXINGTON, Ky.- A Lexington woman has been charged with defrauding a local business and illegally obtaining prescription narcotics. Lexington Police arrested Elsie Leighanne Lamb, 32, in connection with crimes committed while she was employed at a local dentist’s office. Police say Lamb was employed at the dentist’s office from February to November 2015….
Jan 10, 2018, RALEIGH – North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey today announced the arrest of Margarita Alejo, 38, of 2500 Carver St., Durham. Alejo is charged with insurance fraud, obtaining property by false pretense, and embezzlement, all felonies. Special Agents with the Department of Insurance’s Criminal Investigations Division accuse Alejo of manipulating claims with…
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,…
HOUSTON – Take a close look at this sneaky thief who was caught on camera. The sticky fingered thief targets a wallet inside of a purse … in the break room of a dentist’s office. Ashley Williams, who had wallet stolen explained, “people work hard for what they want, so why come in and…
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…
I was speaking with a dentist near Rocklin, CA recently and the subject of “Holly Keate” came up. The dentist asked me if I knew whether Holly returned to work as a dental office manager? I decided to find out. Here is what the Internet dug up, and from what I can tell, Holly never went…
June 24, 2014 An Atwater woman was free on bail Tuesday, a day after she was arrested on suspicion of embezzling about $52,000 from a Merced doctor’s office, according to the Merced Police Department. Desiree M. Lacount, 46, was jailed Monday, but posted a $20,000 bail bond and was released a short time later, according…
Rico said if he got his teeth fixed, he’d “look better for conducting fraudulent transactions at other locations in Florida.” November 21, 2018 at 3:14 PM EST (RNN) – Timothy Powell, 52, of Plantation, FL, has new $41,000 teeth and an almost $10,000 dog. He paid for none of it. One of his victims, a…