Sheriff Darren Campbell stated the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office received a report of Embezzlement from a local business.  Detective Sgt. D.R. Getz with the Economic Crimes Unit was assigned the case.

According to the incident reports the district manager for the company had come to audit the business. During the audit he noticed that the daily deposit slips did not match the days of the months that the deposits were supposed to be sent to the bank. Upon investigating further the district manager was also unable to locate the previous weeks deposit slip. Detective Getz requested all of the video, safe logs, and deposits for the time in question.  During the course of the investigation detectives were unable to locate a total of five deposits that were never delivered to the businesses financial institution.  The suspect was identified as Cynthia Nicolette Babbitt, 35, of Hamptonville, NC.

Detective Sgt. D. R. Getz obtained five warrants for arrest on Cynthia Babbitt for embezzlement.

Mrs. Babbitt was arrested on February 25, 2017 and received a $12,000.00 secured bond and processed at the Iredell County Detention Center.