WAYNESBORO, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A couple has been arrested in connection with a long-running embezzlement scheme that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from a local employer, deputies said.

The Burke County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Susan Jennifer Perez Godbee Wimberly, an employee of CMS, a local manufacturing company based in Italy with operations in Burke County, and her husband, Michael Wimberly.

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Lieutenant Heather Sims led the investigation, which uncovered that over a four-year span, Susan Wimberly embezzled more than $620,000 from the company, deputies said.

Through a process involving dozens of subpoenas,

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