CAPE CORAL, Fla. – An office manager is now behind bars after defrauding a Cape Coral business of more than $106,000, police said.
Stephenie Lynn Parramore, 49, is facing multiple charges after an investigation uncovered she was stealing from her employer, Enviro-Tech.
Police said Parramore misappropriated funds from the business between March 2021 and July 2021 totaling $106,524.31 for personal gain and used some of the money at a casino.
Parramore is accused of writing checks to herself and forging the business owner’s signature. Police said her boss confronted the 49-year-old about multiple transactions to Vegas III, a machine-operated casino in Lee County. The owner offered to work with her on the unauthorized transactions to be paid back before discovering the forged checks.
Investigators said she wrote and cashed 82 checks totaling $45,000 and made 122 American Express transactions totaling $61,000.
Parramore was arrested on May 19 at her home on Southeast 1st Street in Cape Coral after a warrant was issued for her arrest.
The 49-year-old is facing charges of scheme to defraud ($50,000 or more), grand theft (over $100,000), and uttering forged bills, checks, drafts, or notes.
She was taken to the Lee County Jail.
Parramore also pled guilty to a similar crime in 2013 for a payroll theft scheme from Happy Foods where she was accused of stealing $10,000 from the business.
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