RALEIGH -- The Wake County Register of Deeds embezzlement case has been delayed.
Three of the four former employees charged in the case appeared in court Monday morning.
Former Wake County Register of Deeds Laura Riddick did not appear in court but Murray Parker, Troy Ellis and Veronica Gearon did.
In court, District Attorney Lorrin Freeman addressed the judge stating her office received 5,000 additional pages of evidence from the State Bureau of Investigation last Friday.
Monday, a judge ruled that all four cases are being reset until Riddick is able to appear in court. She didn’t appear in court because her attorney is involved in a capital murder trial.
Together, all four are accused of stealing more than $2.3 million that went missing from the office over nearly nine years. All were indicted in December and have bonded out of jail since.
Riddick is charged with six counts of embezzlement by a public officer.
Investigators believe she took more than $925,000 from the office.
She retired last spring while citing health concerns.
It was roughly the same time the D.A. announced the investigation into the missing money.
Ellis worked at a technician at the office from December 2010 to 2017. Gearon was a supervisor and worked there for more than ten years. Parker was an assistant to the register of deeds and worked at the office from 1997 until his retirement in 2013.
The case has been continued with no specific date.