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Post May 16th, 2016, 6:29 pm

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. ???A 30-year veteran former SeaWorld employee was arrested, accused of stealing more than $100,000 in cash from her former employer.

Officials said the suspect, Lisa Olivardia, 50, may have been pocketing money for years.

"It's an unfortunate situation, but she knows right from wrong, you're not supposed to steal," said neighbor Barbara Turner.


On Saturday, the former 30-year SeaWorld employee was arrested for grand theft and scheming to defraud her employer out of more than $100,000 in cash.

"It appears she used her underlings for her own financial gain," said Jane Watrel with the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

Olivardia was a supervisor in guest relations and SeaWorld's Aquatica Waterpark. Over a period of at least three years, sheriff's investigators said she voided all or part of group ticket sales then kept the money.

"She would go up to the subordinate and say, 'You can go on break now' and instead of logging them off the computer, kept it open to void the transactions and keep large amounts of cash," Watrel said.

Investigators said a company vice president noticed Olivardia had triple the amount of voided transactions of any other supervisor, studied surveillance footage and went to law enforcement.

According to investigators, Olivardia tried to minimize what she'd done then allegedly admitted what happened. According to arrest papers, she said "I did it all."

"She said it was to pay the mortgage or for her child's education, but it appears she was just spending the cash. No receipts," Watrel said.

In an email, SeaWorld told WESH 2 News:

"We have extensive security measures in place, including pre-employment criminal background checks and ongoing proactive measures within our parks to identify this type of activity."


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Post May 16th, 2016, 7:27 pm

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Wow. Bitch got balls. lol
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Post May 16th, 2016, 8:18 pm
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It's a common scam that's usually confined to the retail world. A lady I worked with during my hellish year of retail got nailed for the exact same thing but the new security guy.
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Post May 17th, 2016, 12:41 am

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People tend to get crazy when it comes to money... :sad:
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Post May 18th, 2016, 3:23 am
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Hehe, reminds me of a former employee at my work that did trash the money, Instead of depositing it. Only to empty the trash by herself later on. Took a couple of years to catch her in the act.
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Post May 18th, 2016, 3:30 am

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Lol damn she nailed that method. It's a shame she got caught
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Post May 18th, 2016, 5:58 am
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Dirk_Ermen wrote:
Hehe, reminds me of a former employee at my work that did trash the money, Instead of depositing it. Only to empty the trash by herself later on. Took a couple of years to catch her in the act.


That's so stupid it's clever. I'm still kind of astounded SeaWorld wouldn't notice 100,000 dollars missing, I could see even 10,000, but not 100,000.
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Post May 18th, 2016, 9:39 am

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Coasterkidmwm wrote:
Dirk_Ermen wrote:
Hehe, reminds me of a former employee at my work that did trash the money, Instead of depositing it. Only to empty the trash by herself later on. Took a couple of years to catch her in the act.


That's so stupid it's clever. I'm still kind of astounded SeaWorld wouldn't notice 100,000 dollars missing, I could see even 10,000, but not 100,000.


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