David Mark Blanton, 50, of Leland, was arrested last Wednesday and accused of embezzling from customers at United Insurance Company, N.C. Department of Insurance criminal investigators said Tuesday.
Blanton was charged with six counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent, two counts of forgery of an instrument and two counts of uttering a forged instrument.
He was served warrants Sept. 2 and Sept. 3 in New Hanover County, according to a news release, and released after posting $125,000 bail.
Investigators accused Blanton, a licensed insurance agent, of accepting premium payments from United Insurance Company customers without applying money toward their policies from October 2012 through November 2013, the news release stated.
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In this time period, criminal investigators also accuse Blanton of asking customers to write checks directly to him and forging checks belonging to the company fraudulently made payable to himself. He then deposited the money into his personal account on two occasions between November 2011 and August 2012, the release stated.
