MIAMI — Miami police say a former car dealership accounting clerk defrauded her employer out of more than $1 million in a scheme to funnel money to her husband and son. All three are now facing felony charges.

According to a Miami Police Department arrest warrant, Yuddy Mejias worked for Brickell Motors, located at 665 SW Eighth St. in the Little Havana neighborhood, from 2013 until a co-worker anonymously tipped off her bosses about the scheme in August 2024.

Investigators said Mejias, 51, manipulated the dealer’s accounting system to generate $1,047,188 in fraudulent refund checks that were made out to her 54-year-old husband, Miguel Gonzalez, and her 28-year-old son, Angel Gonzalez.

She then manipulated the accounting entries again to conceal the fraudulent activity, police said.

Authorities said she issued 486 checks to her husband and son from 2014 to 2024.

Police arrested the trio on Monday. All three face charges of first-degree grand theft, organized scheme to defraud and conspiracy to commit organized scheme to fraud.

Mejias faces an additional felony charge of making a false entry in a corporation’s record books. Court records listed her bond at $125,000 as of Tuesday, while her husband and son both had a $120,000 bond.

Records show they were being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Miami car dealership employee funneled $1M to husband, son in fraud scheme, cops say

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