A seasonal worker at a jewelry store in the Volusia Mall was employed when nearly $80,000 worth of jewelry disappeared.
About $35,000 worth of the jewelry has been recovered so far. It was tracked to pawn shops in central Florida through the Leads online Internet-based reporting system that Daytona Beach police recently implemented.
Without the Leads online program, the jewels would have never been found, officials said.
"The season employee at this Dillards must have been planning a big Christmas," said Sergeant Bill Rhodes.
The store did an inventory and noticed a considerable amount of jewelry stolen including necklaces, rings, earrings, bracelets, rubies and diamonds.
About a month into the job, another employee noticed that Lillian Canady, 42, had worked for the store under a different name years before and was fired for theft.
After the inventory check Canady was immediately a suspect.
Rhodes said it was confirmed by using the leads online because pawn shops such as Cash America upload to the site every night. Canady was using this Web site.
Once Canady's name was entered into the Web site, 77 hits all with high-end jewelry came up in 1.38 seconds.
Police call Canady a professional thief and liar. While working at the jewelry store she was arrested in Sanford for fraud, and to cover the time in jail Canady told her employer that her son had died.
In December, she had someone call and tell her employers that she had been killed tragically in an car crash and would not be returning to work.
The caller told her employer about a memorial service, but Canady was actually at her home in Sanford.
She is charged with grand theft and a parole violation so she has no bond.
Police are also looking for Canady's husband, who they believe helped pawn the jewelry.
Source: yahoo
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