Woman arrested for allegedly embezzling over $26k from construction company

IDAHO FALLS — A 45-year-old female has been charged aft her erstwhile employer claimed she embezzled complete $26,000.

Amanda M. Gunderson was charged pinch felony fraud criminal possession of a financial transaction paper aliases number to acquisition equipment aliases services, and felony expansive theft.

According to tribunal documents, connected March 29, 2023, Edge Construction and Concrete LLC hired Gunderson arsenic a bookkeeper.

In October, a institution business typical began suspecting that money was missing from a Citizens Community Bank account.

The typical contacted an accounting firm, Poston, Denney, and Killpack, to analyse her suspicions.

The accounting patient gave rule enforcement 2 QuickBooks documents they had created.

The first showed 11 payments to Gunderson totaling $12,330. These payments began connected April 5, 2023, and ended connected Sept. 5, 2023. According to constabulary reports, those payments were morganatic arsenic portion of Gunderson’s salary.

The 2nd archive showed 16 payments to Gunderson, totaling astir $18,910. Court documents opportunity these payments were embezzled money.

The accounting patient told rule enforcement that these payments began connected Jan. 1, 2023, and ended connected Aug. 5, 2023. This reportedly shows nan dates had been modified because Gunderson started her occupation pinch nan institution successful March.

Court documents opportunity Gunderson had entree to nan payroll strategy and had “the expertise to make nan 16 fraudulent payments successful question.”

On Feb. 28, a Bonneville County Sheriff’s detective contacted Gunderson, who said she wanted to get an lawyer earlier talking to rule enforcement astir nan missing money.

Gunderson did not get backmost successful interaction pinch nan detective, and a hunt warrant was ordered for Gunderson’s slope account.

According to nan detective, much fraudulent transactions were recovered successful Gunderson’s slope account, bringing nan alleged full of embezzled money to $26,626.

A warrant was issued for Gunderson’s apprehension connected Tuesday, and she appeared successful tribunal for an first quality connected Wednesday. She was fixed a enslaved of $20,000 and posted bail to beryllium released connected Wednesday.

Gunderson is expected to look for a preliminary proceeding connected Aug. 20. If convicted, she could look up to 19 years successful prison.

Though Gunderson has been charged pinch these crimes, it does not needfully mean she committed them. Everyone is presumed guiltless until they are proven guilty.