By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Chehalis police arrested the chief financial officer for Steck Medical Group yesterday for allegedly embezzling some $25,000 from the health clinic.
Keith B. Mohoric, 51, of Centralia, had worked for the business a little more than a year and a half and was fired yesterday, according to authorities.
Steck Medical Group Chief Executive Officer Chris Bredeson said this morning they recently discovered discrepancies in their bank deposits. They contacted police on Friday.
Bredeson said in a prepared statement: “While significant, the losses do not affect the clinics’ services to patients.”
Detectives went to the clinic on Bishop Road in Chehalis yesterday morning to interview Mohoric and then booked him into the Lewis County Jail for first-degree theft and forgery, police detective Sgt. Rick McNamara said.
McNamara said essentially, not all the money that was supposed to be going to the bank actually was.
McNamara said Mohoric did not say why he did it, “just that he needed it, he was having money issues.”
Steck Medical Group operates multiple clinics in Lewis County, including Steck Medical Center in Chehalis.
Bredeson said Mohoric promised restitution.
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