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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

New Castle Woman Charged With Stealing $290,000 From Employer


Location: Aquilla of Delaware, 1812 Newport Gap Pike, Wilmington, Delaware

Date of Occurrence: 2005 to 2010

Suspect(s): Karen C. Hunt, 48, of New Castle, Delaware

Resume: Yesterday afternoon, Ms. Karen C. Hunt responded to Troop 2 with her attorney to answer to charges of felony Theft and six felony counts of Falsifying Business Records.

This investigation was brought to the attention of detectives after a representative from the victim business in question, Aquilla of Delaware, went to Troop 6 on April 12th to file a theft report.

The business representative advised a recent audit showed a long standing series of internal thefts in which Billing Manager Karen Hunt had intercepted payments to the business and deposited them into her own bank account.

A more extensive audit was completed showing a total loss to the business over the five year period exceeded $296,000.

Ms. Hunt was arraigned on the aforementioned charges and released on a $1,600.00 unsecured bond.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

She obviously didn't spend it on plastic surgery.

Anonymous said...

What are these people thinking?!
Do they really think they'll never get caught?
Also, why aren't businesses and non-profits keeping a better eye on their own books - why let it get this far before something is noticed!?

Anonymous said...

nearly 300,000 dollars, and she gets released on 1,600 dollars? i bet she may have a few of those laying around somewhere...

Anonymous said...

yet Bill Hitch stole over 150,000.00 from the Laurel School District and is still a free man.

Anonymous said...

She make Susan Boyle look like a beauty queen!