ORLANDO, Fla. – A real estate agent was arrested last Thursday on felony charges of grand theft and fraudulent use of personal identification after a $41,000 theft from her employer in an Orlando real estate business.

The arrest reports say that real estate agent Carolyn Ann Hamm, 48, told her employer that she is willing to take on a few more office duties in the office to add some extra cash to the salary she is making as a real estate agent.

Hamm agreed for the extra cash of $1,200 every month for office works such as answering the phones, paying the company bills, processing the agent transactions, and ordering some office supplies.

However, a police report stated that Hamm took exactly $41,743.33, which is more than what she was owed doing extra office jobs, according to some bank records. The records from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation showed that Hamm has an active license for broker sales in the state since the year 2003. Hamm was also listed as a manager on the RE/MAX agency website that is based in St. Cloud.

After the owner of the RE/MAX Vantage which is in the Lake Nona area reported about some missing funds back in March 2016, the police then started investigating about Hamm’s possible embezzlement.

According to the arrest report, the owner of the company said that Hamm had started helping out in both the office and accounting duties by April of 2014 until May of 2015 which is the time when a new receptionist hired by the office to take over the office job. The new receptionist was trained under Hamm and noticed that Hamm was writing a check to herself which contains more than her supposed salary.

The new receptionist has confronted Hamm about the issue but Hamm has quit a short time after the confrontation and without any notice, according to what the owner told the police.

A forensic accountant was hired by the office, according to the police. It was a few months then after the investigation that the accountant has turned over a file containing all the unauthorized transactions found.

This includes some receipts from Amazon for mascara, eyelash curler, cell phone cases, a pizza cooking kit, and underwear which are all charged to one of the company credit cards.

The police records of the arrest also showed that the credit card of the company was also used by the real estate agent, Hamm, to pay the electric bills of her home.