I got to my hotel room and got checked in to take a shower after my fun with Anna on the plane. Then got a rental car and headed for the office to see what in the world was going on with the books. When I arrived to the office and entered it I about shit my pants. It was completely empty. Neither a file cabinet to be found nor anything else for that matter. I went into the back to see if the little living quarters was empty and it was also. I quickly called the cops and they came to take pictures and stuff and I gave them all the info on the manager that I had hired. I always keep a record of all my employees in my laptop just in case of something like this happening. I never thought it would though. The cops ran his name and I then found out that he had moved, as the address they had on the file was different then mine. One of the officers asked me if I would like to ride with him to the guy's house and I of course did. We went to his house to find out that the place was empty also. The police quickly put out an APB on him and asked me for a complete listing of what he had stolen. I gave them all the records I had off of my lap top and the officer said they would get right on it.
About that time one of the other officers that originally came to my call pulled up. He took a look at the list and he said that he knew one of the vans as it was one the DJ he had for his wedding just a week ago. He quickly told us the name and locations of the service and off we were again. I almost shit when we pulled up to the place. It was like a mansion. The gate was open so we went in and the officer said that maybe I should stay in the car as if he saw me he may run. So I did and the two officers went to the front door. A very pretty blonde answered it. She looked to be about 18 and she let them in. After about 5 minutes they came out with my office manager in cuffs and the blonde stood there in tears wondering what was happening. They came to me and explained that after only briefly telling him about the missing equipment and stuff he quickly confessed to stealing everything as it had been so long since I had checked on the account he figured he would make his money and be gone. They asked me if I wanted to press theft charges and I said of course and that I would have my lawyer contact the DA with any kind of restriction that I would want.
They then question the blonde, which turned out was the guys girlfriend and the owner of the mansion in which we were in front of and she gave them all the books and records that he had of his business. Of course a lot of the equipment records were faked as he never bought the equipment but stole it and it turned out that he had been able to embezzle almost 30,000 dollars in the time it took me to notice what was going on. She says she knew nothing of what had happen as she had met him at the wedding dance of a friend and he was already using his own business name at this time. She told the police that he had asked her out and after a couple of dates they got serious and he started to tell her about losing the lease on his office building and need to find a new place to run his business from. She trusted him by now so she asked him to move in with her as she had a huge office that he could run the business from and a huge garage that was empty that he could store his vans and equipment in. The police quickly repossessed the equipment and vans and went into the office and started to take files and stuff from there.
In the mean time I was able to talk to the girl for a while and found out that she was the daughter of a very close friend of my dads. I knew the family very well and decided to call my dad real quick to see what he knew of it all. My dad informed me that his friend had just recently told him of his daughters new boyfriend and that he didn't trust him but she seemed happy so he was going to just let her do what she wanted and watch her closely. I told him of the happenings and he wasn't surprised in the least. He then said he would call her father and let him know and that I should let her know of this. I told her of the conversation I had with my father and of knowing her father for a few years. I found out during my conversation with her that she was just getting ready to enter her freshman year at the State University and that the mansion that we were standing in was a gift from her father for her HS graduation.
I asked her what her major was going to be and she said it was Business Management. I hit pay dirt. I then offered her a job as my office manager. As the one I had would be going away for awhile, The only stipulation being that their relationship had to be over as I didn't want him anywhere near my business. She quickly accepted my offer and said that I had nothing to worry about, as she never wanted to see him again. I had her read over the employment agreement and she signed it and I then explained what her job would be. I then explained to her that I would be keeping a very close eye on things just to make sure I wasn't making a mistake of trusting her.