Suspected con artist Phuong Nguyen-Davis failed to attend her final hearing in York County, which resulted in a warrant being issued for her arrest.
The reason?
She was actually in Howard County, Maryland, that day for a court appearance on separate charges of theft and embezzlement.
Nguyen-Davis, 56, who was due to appear Dec. 16 before a York County judge in a contempt case over $159,000 in unpaid refund, faces similar allegations on a larger scale. And it all adds up to the exceptional restitution of three previous theft cases.
The two new cases will now orbit, with Nguyen-Davis expected to hit court dates in Pennsylvania and Maryland as the states follow their separate court proceedings.
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The charges in the cases were filed within months of each other because, according to the charges, Nguyen-Davis fled an employer when executives detected fraud last year, was hired at another company within a month and – while under investigation – allegedly began embezzling money again.
The losses of the two companies amount to approximately $926,000, according to the police.
Advanced Fluid Systems in Hellam Township suffered the heaviest hit, Nguyen-Davis investigators claim flew$915,045 over five years.
Aerolab, a wind tunnel design company in Jessup, Maryland, told Howard County police during their investigation that an audit found $11,670 in fraud by the company over two months. last summer.
Aerolab CEO Hareen Aparakakankanange contacted The York Dispatch in September to discuss the thefts he discovered during Nguyen-Davis’ brief employment. He declined to comment further on Thursday.
Nguyen-Davis was charged in Howard County with theft, scheme theft and embezzlement in October.
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The case only became public in December, after it was arraigned in the York County Court of Common Pleas on AFS-related charges, and after it was remanded in custody and transferred to Maryland.
Aparakakankanange hired Nguyen-Davis as an office manager at Aerolab on June 27. As part of her role, she received two debit cards, one for Aerolab and one for a subsidiary, linked to a corporate bank account for business-related purchases, police say in a charging document.
In August, Aparakakankanange reported finding fraudulent card charges.
The police purchases listed in the charging document totaled nearly $4,000. They include an Airbnb stay for $945; airfare and hotel costs, including one in Tampa; and about $255 billed to Amazon, including $6.35 for Prime Video.
In his interview with the Dispatch, Aparakakankanange also alleged that several charges had been made against a PayPal account under the name “Davis Photography” and that Nguyen-Davis had used the company’s money to pay bills from this account.
He said that when he confronted her about the charges and wanted to settle the balance, she left him $1,000 in cash and disappeared.
Investigators said the identity of Aerolab’s Nguyen-Davis was linked to a 2006 arrest in Howard County.
Police also noted that law enforcement databases and theft records list multiple addresses for her in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
His first appearance in district court in the Aerolab case was on December 16.
Court records that include a Baltimore address for her show show she was released on an unsecured $5,000 bond the same day. York County’s arrest warrant for missing the overlapping contempt hearing lists an address for Cockeysville, a community just north of Baltimore.
A month before Nguyen-Davis was hired at Aerolab, investigators say, she left the AFS just before Memorial Day weekend and shortly before company executives filed a report with Hellam Township Police.
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She allegedly embezzled the $915,000 while working at AFS in accounts payable and human resources between her hire in January 2017 and her departure.
Investigators alleged that Nguyen-Davis funneled money by charging company credit cards, several of which she opened without authorization, to an online business she created called “D&G Serviced”. The company’s name had an apparent typo, according to billing documents.
She then paid the credit card bills with AFS funds, according to investigators.
The purchases included flights, car rentals, appliances, groceries, medical appointments and apparently electricity bills for a home in York Township, police said.
She was originally charged with 21 crimes last August. Court documents now show one count of theft, six counts of unlawfully accessing a device and another count of using a counterfeit device. His case was returned to district court in November and his original bond was replaced with supervised bond.
She was arraigned in the common plea system on December 6, and Maryland’s warrant was served after the hearing.
The contempt case referred to three previous theft cases in York County nearly a decade ago.
Nguyen-Davis was charged with embezzling money and forging checks while working at Keystone Certifications Inc., Weaver and Sons Excavation and Jacoby Plumbing from late 2012-2013.
She pleaded guilty in each case and was later sentenced in March 2014 to 21 months to 3½ years in York County jail and eight years probation, plus restitution, according to court documents.
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York County Clerk Daniel Byrnes provided a document showing she was assessed at more than $211,000 in all three cases. Nearly $8,500 was donated between 2014 and last August.
Nguyen-Davis still owes $159,370, according to the document.
In the criminal cases, Nguyen-Davis has a hearing in Howard County scheduled for Jan. 24. She then has a hearing set for January 30 in York County.
Attorney Sean Quinlan, who represented Nguyen-Davis at his preliminary hearing in November, did not respond to a request for comment.
A phone number associated with Nguyen-Davis appears to be disconnected.
– Contact Aimee Ambrose at [email protected] or on Twitter at @aimee_TYD.
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