A former office manager for two Goshen County businesses is facing eight felony forgery charges after state investigators allege he siphoned nearly $700,000 from the companies over a four-year period.
Logan Patrick Reifschneider, 31, was arrested by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation Wednesday night. Reifschneider, already on probation for grand theft involving a Wyoming credit union, faces up to 10 years in prison for each felony count.
A probable-cause affidavit written by DCI Special Agent Jon Briggs says Reifschneider worked for Zell Heating & Cooling and Big Wood Tree Service from June 2020 until about October 2024.
Briggs wrote that money moved out of the businesses in a variety of ways — through payroll, customer payments, checks and transfers, with some payments disguised to look like ordinary business expenses.
By the time investigators finished tracing the money, Briggs put the businesses' losses at approximately $688,477.
Something Wasn't Adding Up
As office manager, Reifschneider had access to the companies' finances, including payroll, accounting information and Automated Clearing House, or ACH, transactions.
Eventually, the business owner began noticing they were experiencing financial problems and hired an accountant.
The accountant's review uncovered a substantial amount of missing money, the affidavit says.
The owner and others confronted Reifschneider about the suspected thefts. Reifschneider stopped working for the businesses around October 2024.
The accountant also turned over checks believed to contain forged signatures.
By February 2025, the Goshen County Sheriff's Office had asked DCI to investigate.
Briggs began following the money.
Investigators served numerous search warrants on financial institutions in Wyoming and Nebraska, as well as others around the country.
The financial records were eventually given to an FBI forensic accountant for another look.
What investigators say they found was money leaving the businesses in several different ways.
'Ill-Gotten Gains'
DCI identified $161,790 in payments allegedly made directly to Reifschneider but disguised to look as if they were to legitimate suppliers.
The affidavit says another $159,634 came from customer payments allegedly diverted through Square or Intuit rather than going to the businesses.
Payroll accounted for another $138,609, which investigators characterized as excess payments to Reifschneider, including some coded as though the money belonged to other employees.
Through ACH transactions, checks and other transfers, another $113,177 allegedly landed in accounts belonging to Reifschneider or businesses he controlled.
Then there were expenses allegedly paid on his behalf. Investigators identified $81,267 in unauthorized payments from Zell Heating & Cooling and Big Wood Tree Service, along with a separate $40,000 payment from one of the businesses to an account belonging to Reifschneider.
Investigators also looked at what Reifschneider should have legitimately earned.
Between June 2020 and October 2024, Briggs calculated his legitimate income at approximately $298,214.
Based on that income and the financial records, Briggs described the additional money paid to or on behalf of Reifschneider as "ill-gotten gains."
Eight Checks
Then investigators turned their attention to the checks.
The accountant provided DCI with a number of checks suspected of containing forged signatures. Eight written between April and September 2024 are specifically identified in Briggs' affidavit.
The smallest was for $292.95. The largest was for $8,318.30.
Some were written to suppliers. Others were made directly to Reifschneider.
An April 17 check made out to Reifschneider was for $815.12. Another, dated Aug. 23, was for $3,195.81. A Sept. 7 check was made out to him for $1,025, while another dated Sept. 19 was for $2,158.
Other checks were made out to Torrington Office Supply, Dennis Supply, Gustave A. Larson and Johnstone Supply.
Investigators claim Reifschneider signed Patrick's name to the checks.
The official charging document filed in Goshen County contains eight felony counts of forgery.
The Money Trail Continues
Briggs wrote that Reifschneider returned some money, and Briggs said those repayments were taken into account when DCI calculated the businesses' losses.
After Reifschneider stopped working for the businesses, he paid one business owner about $6,000 through personal checks.
Other money had been returned while he was still employed.
Another check mentioned near the end of Briggs' affidavit tells a smaller story.
A man with 308 Plumbing told investigators he performed work at Reifschneider's home in Torrington on Oct. 24, 2025.
The bill was $782.50.
Reifschneider paid with a personal check, but it bounced.
The man told investigators the check was returned for "insufficient funds" and that he still had not been paid when Briggs prepared the affidavit.
Grand Theft Case
The new charges come just over two months after Reifschneider was sentenced for a separate grand-theft conviction involving a Wyoming credit union.
That case began with another series of transactions that didn't have enough money behind them.
In February 2025, Reifschneider used the third-party payment platform ProPay to put thousands of dollars into accounts he held at WyHy Federal Credit Union, alleges a second affidavit written by Cheyenne police detective M. Webster.
The money initially appeared in his accounts.
Reifschneider then transferred, withdrew or spent it, investigators alleged.
But the underlying transactions didn't clear.
Four transactions totaling $8,902.47 were ultimately returned for insufficient funds, and WyHy calculated its loss at $8,725.59.
When Webster spoke with Reifschneider on May 16, 2025, he acknowledged that the credit union had contacted him about problems with the accounts, according to the affidavit.
He said he would pay the money back by May 23.
He didn't, Webster wrote.
When the detective contacted him again June 17, Reifschneider again said he would get the money paid.
By July 11, the credit union still hadn't been repaid.
On June 4, Reifschneider was found guilty of grand theft.
He was sentenced to 3-5 years in prison, but the prison sentence was suspended, and he was instead placed on three years of supervised probation.
Already On Probation
Reifschneider was on supervised probation for the grand theft conviction when DCI arrested him Wednesday, although the conduct alleged in the new Goshen County case predates that probation.
It wasn't Reifschneider's first conviction involving money, or his first suspended prison sentence.
On Nov. 27, 2017, he was found guilty of fraud for writing a bad check for $4,000.
He was sentenced to 3-5 years in prison. That sentence also was suspended, and Reifschneider was placed on five years of supervised probation.
Court records also show a separate grand theft charge against Reifschneider was dismissed in September 2023.
Reifschneider now faces eight felony forgery charges in Goshen County.
Court records did not indicate as of Thursday that he had yet made an initial appearance on the charges.
Kolby Fedore can be reached at kolby@cowboystatedaily.com.
