Accountant charged in embezzlement

Sarasota, Florida – An internal audit caught up with an accountant for Breton USA today. The Sarasota County sheriff's office says Annique V. LeSage embezzled more than $400,000 since last October.

She has been arrested for grand theft and fraudulent use of a credit card.

Detectives say she had been an accountant with Breton USA in Sarasota for the past 18 months. Since last October, she allegedly wrote 78 company checks and used the company's corporate credit card for buying personal items.

The discrepancies were discovered during an internal audit, they said.

LeSage is being held in the county jail in lieu of just over $1 million bond.