{"id":77438,"date":"2025-12-09T20:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T20:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:40:08","slug":"miami-car-dealership-employee-funneled-1m-to-husband-son-in-fraud-scheme-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77438\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami car dealership employee funneled $1M to husband, son in fraud scheme, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/S5J4L5JOGREE5MUJUITKMWBXSI.jpg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>From left to right: Yuddy Mejias, Miguel Gonzalez, Angel Gonzalez (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said Mejias, 51, manipulated the dealer\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She then manipulated the accounting entries again to conceal the fraudulent activity, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said she issued 486 checks to her husband and son from 2014 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mejias faces an additional felony charge of making a false entry in a corporation\u2019s record books. Court records listed her bond at $125,000 as of Tuesday, while her husband and son both had a $120,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show they were being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandFrom left to right: Yuddy Mejias, Miguel Gonzalez, Angel Gonzalez (MDCR) MIAMI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-77438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77438","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=77438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}