A Dahlonega man has been charged with felony theft of trade secrets after allegedly stealing proprietary information worth more than $14 million from his former employer.
Benjamin Clayton Toombs, 60, is accused of taking intellectual property containing exclusive trade secrets from a Gainesville-based business.
The Gainesville Police Department says Toombs ended his employment with the Gainesville business, which was not publicly named, at which point electronic data alerted authorities to the theft.
Toombs was arrested and booked at the Hall County Jail. The case remains under investigation.
