Woman Arrested on Further Embezzlement Charges

On Friday, December 27th, the Key West Police Department Criminal Investigations Unit Detectives arrested the former general manager of Sears, Vivian Tapia-Smith for embezzling $254,790 from Sears.

In October of 2018, it was discovered that Tapia-Smith allegedly engaged in a scheme to defraud Sears when she regularly stole nightly deposits of cash. Financial records for Sears confirmed that the cash deposits from January 4, 2018 – March 8, 2018 were never deposited into their bank account.

Tapia-Smith was arrested without incident and transported to the Monroe County Detention Center where she is being help on $100,000 bond.

Tapia-Smith, 38, faces a felony charge for Grand Theft and Organized Fraud.

Tapia-Smith Was arrested earlier this month for allegedly stealing nearly $20,000 from a parent teacher association.

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