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Ciara Stawarz is accused of stealing money and confidential information from dental office.

Police said she stole more than $16,000 total during these burglaries, and they say Stawarz stole employee log-in credentials to access banking account and...

May 27

‘Yeah I took it’: Employee stole $35K from dentist’s office.

A former administrative assistant at a dental practice in Pennsylvania is accused of stealing more than $35,000 from her employer to feed her gambling...

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Sep 10

Woman charged with selling $270,000 of stolen dentistry items online.

Officers obtained search warrants for Lucarino’s eBay and PayPal accounts and found records of $265,252 worth of sales from March 31, 2018, to September...

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Apr 8

‘It got out of hand,’ said dental office manager accused of taking $47,000

A dentist with troubles of his own is the complainant in another felony case with thousands of dollars missing from theft at Bellefonte Family...

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Feb 16

Police say woman stole thousands from dentist office

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, PA (May 23, 2023) Kimberly Cook, 58 is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from a dentist’s office where she was working....

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May 23

Two employees steal $450,000 from doctor, attempt to sell property, change his will: DA

Danielle King and Mikayla Zeigler charged with stealing more than $450,000 from bank accounts of a Chester County doctor and blowing the money on...

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Apr 14

Former dental office manager charged with theft

A North Strabane Township woman was arraigned Tuesday on theft charges after she allegedly stole more than $68,000 through falsification of pay records while...

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Mar 6

Blairsville woman pleads guilty to embezzling nearly $600K from doctor’s office

Sandra Jo Doak, pled guilty to mail fraud and filing false income tax returns PITTSBURGH, PA, A Blairsville woman pleaded guilty Tuesday (August 10,...

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Feb 2

Tina Palko accused of stealing over $80,000 from doctor’s office

Too many doctors are ripped off by employees stealing checks. “This case involved theft of checks from the doctors bank account. Tina Palko was...

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Mar 31

Torres stole $439,637, issued 188 unauthorized checks, stamped with the owner’s signature.

Oct 2018 – A Hamilton woman charged with embezzling money from her employer admitted to authorities that she used some of the stolen funds...

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Feb 10

Man allegedly altered, cashed checks he stole from kids dentist office

01/18/19- LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. — Police are looking for a 26-year-old man accused of stealing letters containing checks from a mailbox and cashing them....

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Feb 4

Dental office manager charged in $13K theft

This was a case I worked on in 2012. Hamlin, PA- A long-time, former office manager for a dental office in Hamlin has been...

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Jan 25

Woman convicted of $100K theft from Montco dental office

Sep 11, 2018 – NORRISTOWN – A Bucks County woman faces several years of court supervision and a hefty restitution bill after she admitted...

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Jan 16

Woman charged with stealing from Community College Dental Clinic

Aug 2018 – A former employee of Luzerne County Community College was arrested today after money went missing from one of the departments at...

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Jan 12

Former dental clinic manager gets fed prison in second embezzlement case

A federal judge on Thursday told Jill Bowser that her drug addiction does not excuse her "outrageous conduct" of embezzlement and forging prescriptions and...

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Dec 19

Felon on probation for embezzling from dental office charged again in similar scheme

A former dental office manager from Pleasant Hills on federal probation after spending 41 months in prison for health care fraud has been at it again,...

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Jul 26

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