Employee Charged With Embezzling From Auto Shop

(Providence, RI) -- A Pawtucket woman is being charged with embezzling about a half-million dollars. The Justice Department alleges that Idalee Johnston defrauded her place of employment, Ideal Auto Body in Cranston, by taking checks provided to customers by insurance companies as part of repairs for their motor vehicles. Johnston was arrested by FBI agents and arraigned in federal court in Providence last week.

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