Woman charged with embezzling from grocery store

CLOVIS — A woman was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with embezzling over $12,000 in a two-year period as the employee of a Clovis grocery store.

Rosa Davis, 58, was booked into the Curry County Adult Detention center just after 8 a.m. Wednesday and charged with almost 150 counts of embezzlement, according to court and jail records.

An investigation started in December when the Asset Protection Director for Albertson's told police he had surveillance videos of Davis “refunding money when no one was at the register” and gave police a “large amount of documents showing dates and times of the incidents,” according to an affidavit for arrest warrant filed Feb. 23.

The warrant indicates Davis was fired from the store some time after late November, but does not specify when.

As the investigation continued, officers identified Davis’ “ongoing methods of merchandise refund transactions, gift card refund transactions and money order transactions.” The store’s asset protection director later told police that Davis “told him she took the money from Albertsons to help with her father’s medications,” records show.

District Attorney Andrea Reeb said the case was not in her system yet, and the public defender's office said Davis did not yet have representation.

The vast majority of her 149 embezzlement charges were for $250 or less (petty misdemeanor), but three were for “over $250 but not more than $500” and another four were for “over $500 but not more than $2,500,” a fourth-degree felony, according to court records.