Bookkeeper charged in elaborate $800K embezzlement scheme

NAPLES — A Naples bookkeeper was arrested last month in what authorities are calling an elaborate embezzlement scheme to steal more than $800,000 from three entities where she worked, including a nonprofit that supports schools and a church in Haiti. 

Mary Melissa Chancy, 35, has been charged with grand theft $100,000 or more and scheme to defraud $50,000 or more, according to a statement from the Collier County Sheriff’s office. The arrest follows a two and half year investigation by the Collier County Sheriff’s Office Economic Crimes Unit.