The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office has charged Angela Michell Cacciatore, a 25-year-old Chantilly woman, with committing two financial crimes at her place of employment. Cacciatore, of 13972 Rockland Village Drive, No. 104, stands accused of embezzlement and money laundering.
Investigator Doug Taylor, of the Loudoun Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigations Division, detailed the case against her in a Sept. 3 affidavit for a warrant to search for a stolen sofa in her Chantilly apartment.
According to Taylor, Cacciatore worked as an accounts-receivable accountant at Belfort Furniture, at 22250 Shaw Road in Dulles, when her employer "linked her to approximately 14 questionable transactions." Furthermore, wrote the investigator, "Belfort Furniture alleges that Cacciatore embezzled $12,035 in money, credits and furniture between Oct. 2, 2002 [and] June 23, 2003."
The furniture store reported that a Broyhill sofa was obtained by someone who didn't pay for it. It had a thin, reddish-brown, horizontal and vertical line/square pattern on a cream-colored fabric covering the frame; a solid, reddish-brown fabric covered the pillows.
Taylor noted that, in an earlier visit to Cacciatore's address, he was able to view the allegedly stolen sofa in her living room. "[It was] clearly visible from Elmwood Street," the investigator wrote. The sheriff's office executed the search warrant on Sept. 4 and, at that time, authorities seized "one Broyhill sofa, [which was then] photographed and released to Belfort Furniture."
Cacciatore was charged with one count each of embezzlement and money laundering. She was released from jail on $25,000 bond and has a preliminary hearing date of Oct. 23 in Loudoun County General District Court.
<tgl> — Bonnie Hobbs