WAHPETON, N.D. - Authorities arrested a Hankinson woman Friday on suspicion she embezzled more than $69,000 from a drilling company.
Kathy Coppin, 34, is accused of overpaying herself, improperly using a company credit card and failing to deduct health-care costs from her paychecks at Falk Bros. Well Drilling, said Richland County prosecutor Ron McBeth. She's also accused of cashing unauthorized company checks, McBeth said.
A theft charge filed in Richland County District Court focused on activity between July 2002 and March 2005.
No one at Hankinson-based Falk Bros. Well Drilling was available Friday afternoon to comment on the case.
McBeth said he believes Coppin worked there as an office manager.
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Robert McConn, a Fargo attorney working for Falk Bros., reported Coppin's activity, the Richland County Sheriff's Office said.
Coppin bailed out of jail Friday. A message at her home was not returned.
She will likely make her first court appearance Tuesday, McBeth said.
