Manager Allegedly Stole 75 Vehicles

A former Irvine printing company employee was charged with stealing 75 corporate vehicles through an unusual embezzlement scheme, prosecutors said Friday.

Bryan Moylan, 43, of Newport Coast, will be arraigned Tuesday on 75 grand theft auto charges. He was being held in Orange County Jail Friday on $400,000 bail.

Moylan, fleet manager for OCB Reprographics, is accused of using company money to purchase 45 delivery vehicles after their three-year leases ended. He allegedly told his bosses it was an additional fee and that the vehicles were being returned to Enterprise Rental Car Corp. Deputy Dist. Atty. Pete Pierce said Moylan would collect the title documents, sell the trucks and vans and pocket the money.

“It was a rather ingenious and somewhat sophisticated scheme,” Pierce said. “It’s unusual in that it was a classic embezzlement, but of property rather than money.”

Pierce said Moylan sold 30 vehicles before their leases ended, without the pink slips. He did not know how much Moylan made on those vehicles but said he made hundreds of dollars on each of the 45 others.

A supervisor’s suspicions were triggered when he couldn’t locate some of the vehicles that Moylan allegedly sold before their leases had expired. The supervisor began an investigation, and the results were turned over to the Irvine Police Department.

Moylan, who has been fired, turned himself in to authorities on Thursday, the prosecutor said.

A woman who answered the phone at his Newport Coast home referred calls to his attorney, Michael Burns. Burns did not return calls Friday.

Company officials at OCB Reprographics’ corporate headquarters declined to comment about the charges.