Ex-OrthoGeorgia worker sought on new fraud charges

A woman arrested twice this summer for allegedly stealing an estimated $170,000 from Macon doctors’ offices where she used to work was being sought Thursday on new charges.

Melissa Dyan Zediker, out of jail on bond since late July, is wanted for 200 counts of credit card fraud, authorities said.

Zediker, 44, allegedly used a credit card from OrthoGeorgia, one of her former employers, to run up about $80,000 in charges.

Her most recent address was on Wimbledon Lane in Jones County’s River North subdivision. According to an online records search, she has ties to Alabama, Florida and Virginia.

A reporter’s calls to her cellphone went unanswered Thursday afternoon.

Last month, warrants for forgery and theft charges said Zediker, in April, forged someone else’s name on a document while she worked as an administrator at Urology Specialists in Macon.

A warrant said she “took possession of $69,547 from her employer ... without consent” and “through fraudulent means.”

In that arrest, July 29, charges against her included 12 counts of fiduciary theft. She was released on $34,630 bond.

At the time, her lawyer, Holly H. Edwards, said the “secrets that led to the arrest of my client will come to light in time.”

Edwards has since been arrested herself, accused of drug charges in an unrelated case.

The first charges against Zediker came to light in mid-July when investigators alleged that she stole nearly $100,000 from OrthoGeorgia over a span that dated back to spring 2012.

That case involved 41 counts of fiduciary theft. Zediker was released on $20,000 bond after her arrest on those charges.

According to details in an arrest warrant from the OrthoGeorgia case and a Bibb County sheriff’s report, she illegally deposited a total of $99,063 in OrthoGeorgia payroll proceeds to a bank account in her mother’s name.

To contact writer Joe Kovac Jr., call 744-4397.

This story was originally published September 3, 2015 at 5:35 PM with the headline "Ex-OrthoGeorgia worker sought on new fraud charges ."