Pinecrest, Florida – A former jewelry store manager in Pinecrest, Florida, faces theft and fraud charges after police say she spent more than a year gaming the store’s payroll, commission, and inventory systems, WSVN 7News reported. Dominique Marie Sisk, 38, turned herself in to Pinecrest police with her attorney on Monday. She is charged with third-degree grand theft, organized fraud of $20,000 or less, and a computer fraud offense, and a judge set her bond at $10,000.
According to the arrest report cited by WSVN, Sisk worked at the business for about 14 years and ran its operations, inventory, accounts, and staff, giving her access to the electronic time clock, sales records, commission data, and stock. The store let her go on June 8 after spotting problems in her time records. An internal review then compared an audit of her timesheets from May 2025 to early June 2026 against surveillance video and found hundreds of edits, adding up to about 202 hours and roughly $8,897 in pay she allegedly did not earn. Police say she also switched the salesperson number on sales other employees closed so the commissions and about $1,000 in reward points landed with her. Detectives then searched pawn shop and secondhand dealer records and found gold bracelets, gold scrap and a Cuban-link bracelet that the owner identified as store property, part of an estimated $11,800 jewelry loss. Telemundo 51 identified the store as Maurice Jewelers on South Dixie Highway and said the owner declined to comment.
What jumps out at me is that none of this needed a crowbar. The dollar amounts are modest next to a smash-and-grab, but the damage runs deeper. Coworkers lost commissions they earned, the owner paid for hours nobody worked, and inventory walked out the door without anyone noticing for months. In a lot of independent stores, the longtime manager is the person who runs the clock, approves the sales report and counts the cases. That is exactly the setup that makes this kind of theft easy to hide.
The fix is not to distrust your best people. It is to make sure no one person controls payroll, commissions and inventory at the same time. Have the owner or an outside bookkeeper review a monthly log of timesheet edits and any change to the salesperson on a closed ticket. Spot-check clock-out times against your camera footage the way this store eventually did. Do regular counts of gold chain and bracelet stock by weight, and keep photos of distinctive pieces so you can match them if they show up in pawn records. Pawn databases worked here, but only after the losses were already spread across more than a year.
With holiday hiring and longer hours coming, this is a good week to pull those reports and see what they show.
Key Takeaways
Pinecrest police say a manager with about 14 years at a jewelry store padded her hours, took coworkers’ commissions and sold store jewelry.
The store says it lost about $11,800 in jewelry plus roughly $8,897 in unearned pay; pieces were traced through pawn and secondhand dealer records.
An audit comparing time sheets with surveillance video exposed the pattern, a check any store can run on its own staff.
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