Rhonda McCommons

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A woman was arrested Thursday after a Pima County Sheriff's Department investigation showed she embezzled more than $300,000 from her employer, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

Rhonda McCommons, 48, was arrested on suspicion of theft, forgery, fraudulent schemes and computer tampering after her boss discovered she had forged his name on several of his business checks to pay off personal credit-card accounts, said Deputy Dawn Hanke.

The investigation began in April when the owner of Griggs Products Inc. received information from his financial institution that his checks were used to pay off the credit-card accounts.

The checks totaled $16,000, Hanke said.

In the following months, detectives from the department's Financial Crimes Unit received records from five financial institutions.

The investigation revealed she had embezzled $304,000 before she was fired in April, Hanke said.

McCommons worked for the company, which sells cultured stone products and other construction materials, for almost 15 years.