Crime & Safety
Employers Report Thefts by Employees
The following information was supplied by the Fairlawn Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Check forgery and theft
A Cuyahoga Falls man who owns a business on North Miller Road in Fairlawn called on Dec. 3 to report that a new employee had written himself a check for $300 and then tried to cash it.
The 28-year-old business owner said the new employee, a 26-year-old Cuyahoga Falls man, started work on Nov. 28.
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On Dec. 2, the businessman received a call from a check-cashing firm on Vernon Odom Boulevard regarding a $300 check cashed by the employee. The businessman said he did not issue the check, which is being held by the check-cashing company.
Fraudulent returns
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Police received a call Dec. 6 from a Sears district loss prevention office in Gibsonia, PA, regarding an employee theft. The Sears representative said a 49-year-old Akron man who worked in sales at made $127 worth of fraudulent returns back onto his credit card.
The transactions – one on Oct. 20 for $53 and the second on Nov. 15 for $74 – were discovered during a computer audit. The Sears employee made a written statement admitting to the thefts, was placed under arrest and released with a summons to appear in court on a charge of misdemeanor theft.