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ST. GEORGE — A Washington City woman was arrested Monday for allegedly embezzling $60,000 from her employer over a three-year span.
Detectives received the embezzlement report on April 18 in which the owner of a plumbing company reported one of his employees had been using a company credit card for personal expenses, according to a probable cause statement filed by the St. George Police Department in support of the arrest.
The employee, identified as 30-year-old Amy Lyn Attwell, of Washington City, made “numerous unauthorized personal expenses from 2014 to February 2017,” the arresting officer wrote in a sworn statement.
The owner of the business told police that Attwell held a position of trust as the company’s cost controller and that she had made the purchases without the owner’s preauthorization or knowledge, according to the statement.
“(The employer) confronted Amy (Attwell) after he conducted an internal record check,” the officer wrote in the statement, “and she acknowledged she had used the company credit card for personal expenses.”
The employer had Attwell review financial statements and identify which of the expenses were legitimate and which ones were personal and unauthorized, the report stated.
“They reviewed the records together and ultimately Amy disagreed with the total number that (the employer) had discovered,” the officer stated. “(The employer) has provided several documents and statements and believes the aggregate total of all the unauthorized expenses is $60,000.”