An accountant condemned for having put his workplace for employment To cover the disappearance of more than $ 700,000 under his watch was sentenced to almost six years in prison on Friday.
Carey Alice Hernandez was found guilty by a federal jury of San Diego to set fire to the off -road warehouse, where she worked as an accountant. No one was injured in the fire early on March 28, 2019.
According to the office of the American lawyer, while the affairs of avenue Balboa ignited, surveillance images captured a SUV with dark wheels near the fire scene. The same SUV was spotted on surveillance images near Hernandez’s home, prosecutors said.
One day after the fire, Hernandez sent “deceptive texts” to the co-employees to convince them that the edges of the SUV wheel were light rather than dark and also lied on the wheel rims to agents of the office of Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives, according to prosecutors.
The American lawyer’s office said that after the owner of the off -road warehouse, had decided to sell the company at the end of 2018, the buyer made an audit which revealed that $ 7,44621 had disappeared during the time of Hernandez as an accountant and controller in charge of the books and files of the company.
The dissertation of the sentence of the accusation indicates that the 2019 fire was not the first to the company. In November 2018, a month after Hernandez learned the audit, a fire started in the room containing the company’s financial documents. Paint Minner was found in this room and Hernandez told the owner of the company that she painted there.
Hernandez was sentenced last summer and sentenced to 70 months in prison on Friday.