Suffolk County Police on Tuesday, May 19 arrested a West Islip woman for embezzling more than $385,000 from her employer during a five-year span.
While working as a bookkeeper for R & J Display Inc., located at 96 Otis St. in West Babylon, Patricia Sparby wrote checks to herself totaling $385,424.36 between January 2019 and August 2024. The fraud was discovered during an internal audit of bank statements in 2025.
Following an investigation by Suffolk County Police Financial Crimes Unit detectives and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office Financial Crimes Bureau, Sparby, 66, of 837 Udall Road, was charged with Grand Larceny 2nd Degree and is scheduled to be arraigned today at First District Court in Central Islip.
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