LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX) — A New Mexico girl with a historical past of embezzling cash, forgery and fraud courting again to 2016 was arrested again Friday on two more charges of larceny and fraud totaling $2,946.61.
Michelle Casas, 42, was arrested Friday by Las Cruces Police Division officers at a probation and parole workplace, in keeping with courtroom paperwork, and is dealing with prices of larceny and fraud courting again to 2021, when she labored as a secretary with Las Cruces-based C.D. Normal Contractors Inc.
Courtroom paperwork state that Casas was employed as a secretary on the enterprise round Could 6, 2021, however that she give up lower than a month later “with no discover and no clarification.”
Casas reportedly had no direct involvement with the corporate’s funds, nevertheless, she did have entry to delicate banking data together with account and routing numbers.
Some three months after Casas abruptly give up, a few of the contractors’ employees “started noticing unauthorized prices” on its accounts. After they reviewed their financial institution statements extra carefully, the contractor reportedly observed 18 transactions totaling $2,946.41 that could possibly be linked again to Casas, together with funds to AT&T, Capitol One, Uncover, Venmo, Amazon and extra.
In accordance with C.D. Normal Contractors’ proprietor and its payroll specialist, Casas “didn’t have permission to make use of the enterprise’ account to pay these private accounts.” And, as of 2024, Casas had not repaid any of the cash, in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
Whereas Casas’ time and alleged crimes with C.D. Normal Contractors began and led to Could 2021, that might not be her solely brush with white-collar crime.
In 2016, Casas was accused of embezzling greater than $29,000 from a realty firm.
That very same 12 months, she was served with a warrant after she allegedly used cash from one other building firm and former employer, MANS Development, to pay her cable TV invoice.
Then, in 2021 she was employed as supervisor of Las Cruces’ Dove Canyon Cell House Park, the place she equally embezzled money lease funds. Official paperwork state the homeowners of the cellular house park obtained an nameless tip from a tenant in April 2021, which might recommend that Casas was working at — and allegedly stealing from — Dove Canyon and C.D. Normal Contractors on the identical time.
Courtroom paperwork from that arrest acknowledged that Dove Canyon’s proprietor was conscious Casas had been beforehand convicted of embezzlement, however that Casas claimed she took the autumn for another person.
