Seed Company Employee Accused of Payroll Theft
A former payroll manager for the world’s largest vegetable-seed producer was arrested Wednesday on charges she stole nearly $2 million from the Oxnard company, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors filed 40 charges against Dejah Dawn Brown, 36, of Camarillo, who remains in jail in lieu of $500,000 bail.
She was charged with 18 counts of grand theft, 18 money laundering counts and four counts of making and filing a false tax return.
Authorities said Brown allegedly wire-transferred money from the payroll account of Seminis Vegetable Seed Inc. into her personal bank account between November 1999 and March of this year..
Seminis management eventually uncovered the problem and recovered about $1.2 million from Brown, said Ventura County Deputy Dist. Atty. Tom Johnson.
She is scheduled to be arraigned this week.
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