SANTA FE \u2013 A Santa Fe woman has been accused of embezzling nearly $600,000 from a landscape architecture firm where she once worked.<\/p>\n
A Sept. 19 arraignment has been scheduled for 43-year-old Heather Barna.<\/p>\n
According to a criminal complaint filed in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court, Barna is facing felony charges of embezzlement and unlawful use or theft of an ATM or debit card.<\/p>\n
It was unclear Sunday if Barna had a lawyer who could speak on her behalf.<\/p>\n
Barna worked as an office manager for the landscape architecture firm from October 2020 to January of this year and oversaw payroll for the business.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s owner told police that she learned of the alleged crime after another worker noticed a $9,000 charge in the company\u2019s bank records that couldn\u2019t be explained.<\/p>\n
Barna allegedly made 430 unauthorized transfers from the company\u2019s account to her personal account totaling more than $490,000 plus 1,419 personal purchases on the company\u2019s Amazon account totaling more than $77,000.<\/p>\n
Police obtained a search warrant for Barna\u2019s bank records and confirmed the unauthorized transactions, the Santa Fe New Mexican<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n The newspaper said Barna admitted to taking money to cover surgery costs and repaid only $300,000 of the embezzled funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FE \u2013 A Santa Fe woman has been accused of embezzling nearly $600,000 from a landscape architecture firm where she once worked. A Sept. 19 arraignment has been scheduled for 43-year-old Heather Barna. According to a criminal complaint filed in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court, Barna is facing felony charges of embezzlement and unlawful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815,138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38506"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}