Oct 10, 2012 9:14 AM
A former employee of a Water Mill business was arrested over the weekend after Southampton Town Police said an investigation revealed that he stole more than $21,000 from his workplace in small increments over more than a year.
Former Southampton resident Craig R. Veet, 36, had worked at Water Mill Lumber on Montauk Highway for several years, manning the cash register and handling sales, but one day last summer, one transaction came up as “suspicious,” Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa said. The company’s management reported the incident to police, thinking at first a couple of hundred dollars had gone missing.
The company did a forensic accounting of all its transactions and detectives combed through records. After examining a year and a half’s worth of records, it came to light that Mr. Veet had... more
Former Southampton resident Craig R. Veet, 36, had worked at Water Mill Lumber on Montauk Highway for several years, manning the cash register and handling sales, but one day last summer, one transaction came up as “suspicious,” Detective Sergeant Lisa Costa said. The company’s management reported the incident to police, thinking at first a couple of hundred dollars had gone missing.
The company did a forensic accounting of all its transactions and detectives combed through records. After examining a year and a half’s worth of records, it came to light that Mr. Veet had... more
