Brickell Motors Employee Charged in $1 Million Fraud

Police have accused Yuddy Mejias, a 15-year employee of Miami’s Brickell Motors, with systematically defrauding the auto group of more than $1 million by issuing hundreds of checks from Brickell’s accounting system to her husband and son, Miguel and Angel Gonzalez.
NBC 6 South Florida reports the trio was arrested on charges of grand theft, organized fraud and organized scheme to defraud, then released on bond. Miami Police spokesman Michael Vega tells NBC 6 the investigation started last year, when a coworker tipped off an executive.
“She would say [to customers], ‘You have a refund coming.’ Let’s say it’s $1,000. And she would make out a check under your account, but it’s going to the name of her husband or her son,” Vega says.
Brickell is also known as Murgado Automotive Group, named for president and owner Mario Murgado Sr., who started the business when he and two partners purchased Brickell Honda and Brickell Pontiac GMC (now Brickell Buick & GMC) in 2001.




