TERREBONNE PARISH, LA. — For spending more than $380,000 on business credit cards, a Louisiana lady was detained Wednesday night and faces felony larceny and financial fraud charges.
Katie Lynn Hebert, 35, of Terrebonne Parish, has been embezzling money from her job by using credit cards in the names of old colleagues, according to Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Tim Soignet’s report issued Thursday.
A source told investigators that the embezzler was no longer at the company and had previously handled the business’s credit card account after the investigation was launched on Wednesday.
Hebert had worked for her workplace since 2012 and was fired off May, thus she was put on the list of suspects in the probe.
Hebert was allegedly responsible for fraudulent purchases on the business’s credit card for the past two years, according to the sheriff.
Hebert confessed to unlawfully using the business’s credit card account for personal purchases while in an interrogation with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office.
TPSO officers made an arrest the same day that the probe began.
Hebert was charged with felony theft on two charges, access device fraud on two counts, and bank fraud on two counts. Hebert was last seen in the Terrebonne Parish Jail, where she was is being held on a $250,000.00 bail.
