A former Humane Society director and her husband have been arrested for allegedly embezzling $1.5 million from the shelter in an operation called Operation Heartless.
At a Feb. 10 press conference, Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis announced the Feb. 9 arrest of Susana Arneson and her husband Douglas O’Berry on three felony charges regarding the embezzlement of $1.5 million from the Humane Society of the Nature Coast in Brooksville, Florida, where Arneson was once employed as the shelter’s director of development. Bond is set for $750,000 for each of them.
