{"id":18134,"date":"2013-01-23T16:21:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=18134"},"modified":"2013-01-23T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T21:21:12","slug":"lehigh-acres-resident-charged-with-embezzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/01\/lehigh-acres-resident-charged-with-embezzling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Resident <br>Charged With Embezzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18135\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/lehigh-acres-resident-charged-with-embezzling\/ashley-coffey\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18135 \" title=\"ashley coffey\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ashley-coffey-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ashley-coffey-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ashley-coffey.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Coffey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A trusted employee that had worked her way up to office manager for a group of local car dealerships is charged with embezzling more than a quarter of a Million dollars.\u00a0 Ashley Coffey was arrested Saturday at her mother\u2019s house in Tice.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office Economic Crimes Unit reveals that over a period from October 2, 2008 until April 9, 2012, Coffey used her position as Office manager for Sonic Automotive (doing business as Volkswagen of Fort Myers, BMW of Fort Myers, Mercedes Benz of Fort Myers and Honda of Fort Myers) to embezzle $256,482.\u00a0 Coffey would systematically look up old customer numbers in the computer and overwrite the information.\u00a0 The investigation shows Coffey would then generate bogus extended warranty cancellations and cut refund checks in her name.\u00a0 Needing a second signature on the checks, Coffey then forged the signatures of other office managers and deposited the checks into her personal account via ATM\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2012, Coffey knew the heat was on.\u00a0 One day she left the office for a lunch break at approximately 11:15 a.m. and never returned.<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Coffey of Lehigh Acres, was charged with First Degree Grand Theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trusted employee that had worked her way up to office manager for a group of local car dealerships is charged with embezzling more than a quarter of a Million&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}