Dental office employee arrested for allegedly stealing $600k from customers over months
An employee at a dental office in South Carolina was arrested after allegedly stealing more than $600,000 over several months.
Ashanti Keyana Kinney, a staff member of the Affordable Dentures & Implants in Myrtle Beach, was arrested on November 18 and is charged with breach of trust with fraudulent intent.
Kinney stole $612,990.20 from the business between January 1 and August 15, according to investigators.
Officials used bank records, audit documents, and scheduling paperwork to lead to an arrest.
The investigators claimed that the 39-year-old would review patient accounts and mark them as ‘paid’ for the procedures, but keep the money.
Her job was to collect cash from customers and deposit it at the bank, according to a report cited by WMBF.
Following her arrest, she posted a $20,000 bond and was released from the Horry County jail on November 19.
Ashanti Keyana Kinney a staff member of the Affordable Dentures & Implants in Myrtle Beach was arrested on November 18 and is charged with breach of trust with fraudulent intent
Kinney stole $612,990.20 from the business between January 1 and August 15 according investigators
The regional manager of the dental office filed a complaint against Kinney with the police on August 20.
Since her release, Kinney has been active on Facebook, where she appears to show that nothing is wrong as she posts her weekly Sunday night dinner.
On her latest post, a caption describing the dinner finished with the hashtag ‘600k’ accompanied by a laughing emoji.
Under the post, a friend of Kinney’s commented: ‘AND IF YOU DID THE F***. MAYBE THEY WASN’T PAYING ENOUGH.’
To which she replied: ‘It’s all good! I promise you my family would have been taken care of! FIRST! It’s no way.’
The friend then continued, saying that the media is making this story out of nothing and that there was no way Kinney could have done it, given how she watches her kids.
Her job was to collect cash from customers and deposit it at the bank
Kinney responded: ‘exactly! I would have moved so damn fast away from Myrtle Beach they would have NEVER caught my a**.
Laughing emojis accompanied everyone her comments when speaking about the ‘$600k’.
It wasn’t clear when Kinney was due back in court.
