Royal Water Damage in Willow Grove (Image courtesy of Google StreetView)
A Willow Grove-based business discovered that a former employee was using a gas card for more than the company’s vehicle’s needs. Instead, the person ran up a bill of nearly $11,000 for personal use, police said.
The owner of Royal Water Damage, based on Fairview Avenue in Willow Grove, in Abington Township, reported to police that on Oct. 15, 2024, upon reviewing his fleet’s assigned Wawa gas cards, which employees use to fuel up company work vans, that there was a discrepancy in the documentation, police said. According to a police criminal complaint, the owner audited the gas cards and saw that one of the cards had a bill that did not add up.
Additional, police said that the gas card was being used on dates and times that did not align with the company’s work orders. In total, the owner found 168 fraudulent transactions spanning from Jan. 3, 2023 to Oct. 15, 2024, said the complaint. Each of the fraudulent cases included the purchase of fuel at various Wawa locations for a vehicle not affiliated with any work video or any work order conducted by Royal Water Damage, said police.
Police said, instead, that an employee’s card included a total of $10,979.35 of fraudulent fuel purchases unlawfully conducted and billed to Royal Water Damage. According to the criminal complaint, police obtained video surveillance from several Wawa locations, all of which showed a blonde female exiting a blue Toyota Highlander with Pennsylvania tags, filling the gas tank via payment at the pump at each location. Police said that they identified the woman by running the tags, finding the registered owner, and comparing her driver’s license image to the video surveillance.
Crystal Delquadro, 39, of the 200 block of East Butler Avenue in Doylestown, a former employee of Royal Water Damage was found to be the vehicle’s owner and the one using the card fraudulently, police said. The complaint said that Delquadro’s employment as the business’ office manager ended in January 2023, and that during her employment, Delquadro she worked inside the office. Per the owner, police said that Delquadro “was never authorized to have a gas card in the parameters of employment” in her role nor after her leaving the company.
Delquadro is charged with felony counts of theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, accessing a device issued to another who did not authorize its use, other reason for access to a device that is unauthorized, and a misdemeanor count of possession of an instrument of a crime.
Delquadro is scheduled for a preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge John D. Kessler on Jan. 16 at 10:30 a.m. She was held on an unsecured $5,000 bail.
According to court documents, Delquadro also has an open criminal case in Bucks County for operating a vehicle following the suspension of a registrations, which was issued in Warrington Township, Bucks County on Nov. 20, 2024. She is scheduled for a summary trial on Jan. 30 at 3:15 p.m. before Magisterial District Judge Stacy Wertman, for that matter.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
