Carson City man embezzles $54,000 in stolen goods, 'severe discounts' for customers at home improvement store
Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/07/2023 - 12:39pm
A 55-year-old Carson City man was arrested after admitting to embezzling over $54,000 worth of products from his work.
Deputies were dispatched to a home improvement store on Fairview Dr. Thursday afternoon on an embezzlement report.
When they arrived, deputies spoke with the store manager who said that his assistant store manager, Raymond Cawley, had admitted to stealing over $54,000 worth of products over the course of a year and a half.
The manager said that they noticed products stored in the back of the store for “buyback” began to disappear, and when they investigated, they observed on video Cawley load several items including flooring and appliances into his personal trailer out back in the loading dock before driving away.
The manager said they also observed Cawley taking store stock to the back of the store before loading it on his trailer as well.
The manager said they never allow people to load products in the back of the store due to a lack of video cameras.
The manager confronted Cawley about the thefts, at which point they said Cawley confessed to stealing many products over the past year and a half. The manager asked if he’d write a confession, and Cawley agreed.
Cawley agreed to speak with deputies, and told them he had been embezzling thousands of dollars from the business. He said he would go through the recycle trailer and take products for himself to take home. He said he also would ring up customers with the wrong price tag for a ‘severe discounted price.’
He said he had also allowed customers to walk out of the door without paying.
When deputies asked Cawley if he knew what he was doing was wrong, he said yes, but that he was “trying to help people.”
Neither Cawley nor the store manager were able to provide specific details of products that were stolen, given away, or lost, but Cawley repeatedly said that the products equaled $54,000.
Cawley was taken into custody for felony embezzlement without issue.
Bail: $20,000
— A 40-year-old transient man was arrested at the library for trespassing after yelling at a woman and refusing to leave the premises.
According to the arrest report, deputies were initially dispatched to a nearby grocery store on report of an intoxicated subject bothering customers.
Upon arrival, deputies learned the man had jumped the fence into the library.
Deputies located the man who was sitting on the ground beside a bench yelling at an older woman. The man was “vulgar” in speaking with deputies, according to the report, and said he did not break any laws.
Deputies repeatedly told the man he was free to leave, but the man said he was not going to leave and would have to be arrested. He turned out, put his hands behind his back and backed up towards deputies.
An employee of the library agreed to sign a citizen arrest for trespassing. He said he was working in the back when he heard shouting coming from in front of the library. He said that he got a woman and brought her inside the library to get her away from the screaming man, and that the man seemed confused.
The man was taken into custody for trespassing, and at the jail, he blew a .214 percent BAC on the preliminary breath test.
Bail: $242
In other arrests:
— 38-year-old James Paul Kelm was arrested for felony failure to appear warrants. No bail.
— 62-year-old Anthony Nelson was arrested on one felony fugitive from justice warrant out of Alpine County, and two misdemeanor contempt of court warrants from Carson City. Bail: $60,000
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