NewsLocal NewsCollier County

Actions

Financial manager of Naples pre-school steals nearly $80k from company

Naples Police Department
Posted
and last updated

NAPLES, Fla. — A woman who stole nearly $80 thousand from a Naples pre-school will have to pay all of it back, and spend 13 years on probation.

Naples Police say Heather Ortiz used a fake PayPal account to take money from the Fun Time Early Childhood Academy while she worked as the school's financial manager.

Ortiz used the school's business credit cards to pay herself, then deposit the money into her personal bank account.

Investigators say Ortiz did this several times. She stole $69 thousand from the company card, $4,000 from a donation account and spent $7,000 on personal shopping with the company's cards.

Ortiz will pay more $79,000 back to the school in addition to spending two years on house arrest and another 13 on probation. She was found guilty of Grand Theft and Fraudulent Use of Personal Identification.