{"id":220871,"date":"2026-04-06T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:17:07","slug":"woman-accused-of-using-stolen-hoa-funds-for-plastic-surgery-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220871\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of using stolen HOA funds for plastic surgery, trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A warrant has been issued for a woman accused of embezzling thousands from HOAs in Martin County, and using the funds for trips and plastic surgery. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Alexandra Delacaridad Gonzalez was employed as a property management bookkeeper for Avant-Garde Property Management, and allegedly wrote herself checks from HOA accounts she managed, concealing the fraud with fake invoices and  ledger entries. <\/p>\n<p>They allege she also forged signatures. <\/p>\n<p>The stolen funds were used for personal expenses like plastic surgery, vacations and shopping. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say HOAs at Whitemarsh Reserve and The Dunes of Hutchinson Island were targeted. <\/p>\n<p>MCSO says Gonzalez has warrants for: <\/p>\n<p>Two counts of fraud exceeding $50,000Two counts of grand theftSixty-one counts of uttering false instrumentsFifty-nine counts of embezzlement<\/p>\n<p>They say Gonzalez may currently be in either the Miramar or Vero Beach area.<\/p>\n<p>Her bond has been set at $1,350,000. <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office asks if you have any information about the suspect or if your HOA was targeted, please contact them at 772-220-7000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A warrant has been issued for a woman accused of embezzling thousands from HOAs in Martin County, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100102,94534,28,1387,1042,1160,100103,171,173,172,47251,179,12758],"class_list":{"0":"post-220871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-alexandra-delacaridad-gonzalez","9":"tag-embezzlement","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-fraud","12":"tag-hoa","13":"tag-martin-county","14":"tag-martin-county-hoa","15":"tag-port-st-lucie","16":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","17":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","18":"tag-property-manager","19":"tag-treasure-coast","20":"tag-wptv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}