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News brief: Electrical business office manager arrested, accused of embezzling

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

CHEHALIS – The bookkeeper at a Chehalis business was arrested yesterday for allegedly embezzling more than $200,000 from his employer.

The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office reports they found Stanley W. Sigler, the bookkeeper and office manager for the the past six years at Rakoz Electric, had been writing checks to himself and signing an owner’s name.

Sigler, 47, was arrested at the business on Bishop Road yesterday.

Sheriff’s Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said an investigation concluded Sigler wrote himself three to four checks each month for the past year, averaging each about $2,100.

Randy Rakoz, operations manager for the company, said it only came to light yesterday.

Rakoz Electric has eight employees. The Chehalis-based business has been doing commercial and residential wiring locally for some 30 years.

Sigler was booked into the Lewis County Jail for 10 counts of forgery, identity theft and second-degree theft, Brown said.