A manager at a Pennsylvania Wendy’s invented a fake employee and pocketed wages of $20,000, police say

• The ex-manager of a Pennsylvania Wendy’s made up a fake employee to pocket extra wages, police say.
• She manually clocked the “ghost employee” in and out for 128 shifts, police said.
• The woman was charged with theft by deception and an arrest warrant issued.

A former general manager of a Wendy’s restaurant in Pennsylvania who police said made up a fake employee so she could pocket their wages has been charged with theft by deception.

Linda Johnson created a “ghost employee” named William Bright, whom she clocked in and out at the outlet she managed in Lancaster, the Manheim Township Police Department said last week.