Las Vegas finance supervisor charged with stealing $400K, bleeding accounts dry

Girl experiencing 27 theft-connected charges

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A former Las Vegas finance manager allegedly stole additional than $400,000 from her employer, leaving the business’ accounts virtually empty, paperwork the 8 News Now Investigators received reported.

Amanda Dibben, 32, also referred to in files as Amanda Meyers, is accused of thieving additional than $400,000 in spend, funds and other funds from bank accounts, detectives reported.

Metro law enforcement arrested Dibben at a unique small business on 27 theft-linked prices on Thursday, June 15, paperwork said.

A landscape and contracting company employed Dibben in August 2018 as accounting controller and manager, files said.

A company formal 1st turned suspicious in Oct 2020 when he requested Dibben to give an personnel a $500 examine reward, files mentioned.

“[Dibben] explained to [the company leader] she needed to get the funds since she essential to get up and extend,” detectives wrote in documents. “He questioned her to do it immediately since he needed to go away the business with the money. [Dibben] took a prolonged time to get again to the place of work and stated she drove to [a grocery store] after she went to the bank.”

Meters then handed the company leader 10 $50 costs, saying “the bank was out of $100 payments,” documents mentioned. The business chief became suspicious and went to the bank himself the place they claimed that was a lie.

“[A bank employee] instructed him [Dibben] never tried using to income a verify that day, for the reason that if she had, they would not have supplied her any cash. The account was overdrawn by $59,850,” files reported.

In all, the company’s a few cost savings accounts experienced significantly less than $800 in them, paperwork reported. Organization leaders then questioned Dibben what experienced took place to the cash and recorded the discussion, documents mentioned.

“During the recording, [Dibben] said, ‘No, this is mistaken. What do you necessarily mean we do not have any funds in our discounts accounts?” paperwork reported. Dibben also reportedly mentioned, “Honestly guys, I just did not have the coronary heart to explain to you fellas we’re goin’ out of enterprise. I like you men so a lot. I just couldn’t carry you the information that we’re – you are goin’ out of business.”

Soon after, business leaders located Dibben experienced altered her salary from $65,000 in the procedure, files said.

“[Dibben] utilised a distant bank deposit scanner to scan even bigger deposits various periods, and it took the lender a 7 days to catch up to debit the account,” documents reported. “The bank discontinued their use of the scanner. [Company leaders] observed several unauthorized loans [Dibben] experienced utilized for involving the providers.”

Dibben also allegedly employed a company’s leader’s own details to apply for a personal loan, files stated.

Though talking with investigators, Dibben blamed earlier employees, documents stated. She also skipped a scheduled interview with police and then stopped responding to detectives’ messages.

Dibben remained in custody at the Clark County Detention Center on Thursday on $25,000 bail, information confirmed. Her preliminary listening to was scheduled for July 5.