{"id":10142,"date":"2025-05-02T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:37:05","slug":"prosecutor-toms-river-woman-36-took-money-from-motorcycle-dealership-where-she-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2025\/05\/prosecutor-toms-river-woman-36-took-money-from-motorcycle-dealership-where-she-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor: Toms River Woman, 36, Took Money From Motorcycle Dealership Where She Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Toms River woman was charged by prosecutors in Monmouth County with the theft of funds from the motorcycle dealership where she worked, officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Chelsea A. Marra-Kaufmann, 36, of Toms River, the former general manager of the unidentified dealership, is charged with third-degree theft by taking or exercising unlawful control over property.<\/p>\n

A referral to the West Long Branch Police Department initiated the investigation last year. A review of the dealership\u2019s business, payroll, and sales records revealed that Marra-Kaufmann had erroneously received additional paychecks on three separate occasions in late 2022 without authorization by the dealership\u2019s executive leadership, amounting to nearly $6,000, but never reported it, the statement said.<\/p>\n

The investigation, which grew to also involve the Prosecutor\u2019s Office\u2019s Financial Crimes and Special Prosecutions Unit, further revealed that around this same time, Marra-Kaufmann\u2019s $3,300 check for a personal purchase of a motorcycle was returned for insufficient funds, prompting her to allegedly hide the loss under the guise of multiple bank fees. Additionally, in a separate 2023 sale, she never paid an approximately $18,000 deposit, then conducted a series of transfers in the accounting system to cover up the loss, prosecutors charge.<\/p>\n

In all, the alleged theft added up to slightly more than $27,000. Last week, Marra-Kaufmann was served the charges against her on a summons, with a first appearance tentatively scheduled to take place on Tuesday, June 10 in Monmouth County Superior Court.<\/p>\n

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A Toms River woman was charged by prosecutors in Monmouth County with the theft of funds from the motorcycle dealership where she worked, officials said in a statement. Chelsea A. Marra-Kaufmann, 36, of Toms River, the former general manager of the unidentified dealership, is charged with third-degree theft by taking or exercising unlawful control over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2037,1080,19,11],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-chelsea-a-marra-kaufmann","tag-featured","tag-theft","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gavel.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10143,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}