A woman was arrested after police said she used dozens of forged checks to steal nearly $50,000 from the Hialeah jewelry store where she worked for a month.
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Geydis Cabrera, 39, was arrested Monday on charges including third-degree grand theft, uttering a forged instrument, and organized fraud, an arrest report said.
According to the report, the owner of Casa Joyero Miami, a jewelry store on West 49th Street, contacted police in February to report that Cabrera, a store sales representative from October 2025 through November 2025, had forged dozens of checks.
The owner said Cabrera was compensated on a commission basis and had been issued a single check for $800, but when the owner reviewed bank records, she said she found around 90 additional checks that she didn’t authorize, the report said.
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Cabrera, the owner said, had forged the checks, made them payable to various people and negotiated them without her consent, the report said.
The owner said 57 of the checks were issued under her name and investigators confirmed 57 checks, each in the amount of $815, were deposited into an account belonging to Cabrera, the report said.
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The total verified loss to the store was $46,455.
Cabrera was arrested and booked into jail, records showed.