LIBERTY COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) - A pair of cousins have been arrested after investigators say they stole more than $100,000 from a local trucking company over a period of three years.
FDLE agents say they have arrested Glenn Terrell Holland, 48, of Hosford and Gregory Newsome, 59, of Altha each for grand theft and engaging in a venture to defraud a local trucking company.
FDLE agents, in partnership with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, discovered that Holland, a manager at the trucking company, was his cousin Newsome’s direct supervisor from February 2015 to August 2018.
While employed there, Newsome also worked as a correctional officer at Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee.
Apart from receiving a paycheck, agents say there was little indication that Newsome actually did any work for the trucking company.
The investigation found that Newsome’s timesheets at both jobs reflected that he was working day shift, approximately 60 hours per week for the trucking company while maintaining a full-time, day-shift work schedule at the hospital.
His combined timesheets revealed that there were about 317 days that he worked at both locations in 12 hour shifts, two times a day. Agents say the timesheets also indicate that he worked 24 hours or more per day for around 163 days, which is impossible.
In addition, the investigation found that the cousins were passing money between their bank accounts, indicating that Holland was receiving money from his cousin during their joint venture to defraud the trucking company.
Holland and Newsome were arrested Thursday by FDLE and members of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the Leon County Sheriff’s Office, and booked into the Liberty County Jail.
