An arrest warrant has been issued for a Stone Mountain man who allegedly embezzled more than $130,000 from his employer by creating ghost co-workers and then collecting their pay, Channel 2 Action News reported.
Roosevelt Speight’s job was processing expense accounts for Elekta, a Norcross medical technology company.
"He created these fictitious people [and] made it looked like they worked for the company,” Cpl. Edwin Ritter, Gwinnett County Police Department spokesman, told Channel 2. Two were employees, and one was a supervisor.
Speight then set up accounts in those people's names at Bank of America and had bogus paychecks and business expenses deposited in the accounts, police said. He is believed to have stolen $134,000 over nearly a year’s time.
Police said they traced the I.P. addresses where the employee profiles were created to the Norcross office and determined that Speight was the person with access to create the profiles. A warrant issued April 30 charged Speight with theft and identity fraud.
Channel 2 visited the address listed on the warrant and got no response. When the station called the phone number listed on the warrant, a man who identified himself as Speight said he didn’t know anything about Elekta and had no comment and hung up.
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