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Cantonment Woman Charged With Allegedly Cashing Business Checks Meant To Pay Sales Tax
February 25, 2026
A Cantonment woman was charged with fraud and grand theft for allegedly cashing checks from her employer that were meant to pay business taxes.
Wendy Joan Moye, 48, was charged with one count of felony grand theft and three felony counts of uttering a forged instrument.
The owner of Franklin Antiques reported that Moye, her employee, wrote a total of six checks from a Regions Bank business checking account for $8,095 and cashed them. The business owner told deputies that Moye had permission to fill out the checks, but did not have permission to sign her name to them. She stated that six fraudulent checks were written for business taxes; however, her sales taxes were never paid.
Through a subpoena, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office obtained video surveillance and still photographs of female identified as Moye cashing or depositing checks on October 17, 2025, October 31, 2025, and November 13, 2025 at two separate Regions Bank locations, according to an arrest report.
The business owner was shown images from video surveillance of three transactions and positively indemnified Moye as the person in the images, according to the ECSO.
The ECSO investigators set a January 13, 2026, interview meeting with Moye at the main Sheriff’s Office.
“I subsequently received a phone call from a male slating he was Moye’s legal counsel and that she would not attend the meeting,” the deputy wrote in the report.
After a warrant was signed by a judge, Moye was booked into the Okaloosa County Jail with bond set at $9,000.
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7 Responses to “Cantonment Woman Charged With Allegedly Cashing Business Checks Meant To Pay Sales Tax”
Those wondering about her being booked in at Okaloosa Co Jail this is normal. They are in Escambia judicial circuit which is why the state attorney in Escambia is over cases there. So she could have been in Okaloosa Co & their deputies arrested her or she was out of town & once she learned of the warrant she went to the nearest jail to turn herself in. These are just two of the many different ways her being booked into Okaloosa but her case will be handled in Escambia without a venue change. Or simply William made a typo lol lol JK’n William. Sincerely Retired ECSO Deputy.
9000 well all she has to do is pay 900 to get out, this is crazy.
Why Okaloosa county?
@Steve, probably 4th or 5th round at least
Not the first for sure and probably not the last. Hope it gets worked out
This ain’t her first rodeo .
……. ever heard of a paper trail, lady?