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Pinellas Park man stole $600K from employer in 11 year long scheme, police say
WFLA News Channel 8 ^ | January 5, 2023 | Rachel Tucker

Posted on 01/10/2023 8:56:43 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — A man from Pinellas Park was accused of stealing over $600,000 from his employer in an alleged scheme that had been going on since 2013.

According to a Largo Police Department arrest report, Mark Delano, 59, allegedly stole work orders from his employer, used his employer’s equipment and materials to fulfill the work orders under his own company, and then pocketed the proceeds.

Police said Delano also collected a salary from his employer while running the alleged scheme.

Delano’s employer allegedly caught him in the act on April 11, 2022, when his boss showed up to the shop unannounced and saw him using the machines for his own subcontracting work. Delano’s employer told police he admitted to the theft.

Bank records “showed a long-running, systematic theft of work that should have gone to [Delano’s] employer,” according to Largo police. Investigators said the theft exceeded $600,000.

Delano was arrested on Tuesday and booked into the Pinellas County Jail on one count of scheme to defraud over $50,000.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: arrest; embezzlement; florida; floridaman; fraud; pinellaspark; police; theft; workorders

1 posted on 01/10/2023 8:56:43 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Sounds like the employer wasn’t minding his business.


2 posted on 01/10/2023 9:10:17 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Math is hard. Started in 2013. Found out April 11,2022, but it went on for 11 years. Alrighty then. Even if it started January 1, 2013, it would only be 9 years, three months and 11 days.


3 posted on 01/10/2023 9:15:09 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Publik skrewels?


4 posted on 01/10/2023 9:23:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Breaking Commandments 8 (no stealing) and 9 (no false witness) for eleven years is evil. The employer needs an accountant.


5 posted on 01/10/2023 9:36:44 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It seems that any halfway decent payroll audit would have exposed this years ago. Apparently the Boss never suspected a thing until last April.


6 posted on 01/10/2023 9:57:12 PM PST by lee martell
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To: IYAS9YAS

I noticed that too.

Total morons write our news.


7 posted on 01/10/2023 10:37:42 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

>>Total morons write our news.<<

Ever notice their countries of origin?


8 posted on 01/11/2023 2:18:24 AM PST by Does so (It's not OUR guns...It's YOUR sons!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

But if that company decided to not pay employees the owner would not be arrested for theft.

It’s a double standard.


9 posted on 01/11/2023 3:55:57 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: for-q-clinton

I think I may be currently the victim of a fraud committed by a bookkeeper who is stealing from her employer.


10 posted on 01/11/2023 5:32:11 AM PST by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Obviously, not a student of common core math! Troublemaker.


11 posted on 01/11/2023 6:40:04 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: TheConservator
If nothing else, voice your suspicions to the employer if you can back them up with something.
12 posted on 01/11/2023 7:11:08 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I would be very interested in seeing how this case turns out for the accused. There are cases on record that could be used to argue that the employee was/is not guilty of a crime.
I know, I KNOW!!! The headline and article make it seem like a slam-dunk.
But once the facts come out, and various lawyers have been hired...I think the defendant might walk free.


13 posted on 01/11/2023 10:56:34 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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