POST FALLS - When Russell Mann couldn't sleep, he turned to reviewing his company's credit card information online to make him tired.

Instead, the owner of the Enoteca beer and wine shop in Post Falls got a wake-up call.

Mann learned that about $35,000 in unauthorized expenses had been charged to a company credit card dedicated to occasional business needs.

"It freaked me out," Mann said. "There were weird charges that I just didn't recognize."

Those charges included four nights at a suite at The Coeur d'Alene Resort, fine dining at Beverly's, a $1,200 bottle of wine and a stay at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Mann said when he called Jacob R. Marshall, the retail manager Mann hired in November who was granted the card, Marshall didn't return the message.

Mann filed a police report about the lavish expenses, and police obtained a $100,000 warrant for Marshall's arrest.

Post Falls police Detective Rod Gunderson said Marshall, 38, of Hayden, returned his call and lived up to his word by turning himself in on Thursday.

"He came in, confessed and was arrested," Gunderson said.

Marshall was booked into the Kootenai County jail on a felony grand theft charge. Gunderson said Coeur d'Alene police are also pursuing a similar charge against Marshall.

Gunderson said Marshall told him that after he started the spending spree, he decided to continue on as the crime had already been committed.

"It snowballed and got to the point of no return," Gunderson said. "He continued to use (the card) and went hog-wild with it."

Gunderson said the unauthorized charges were made during the two weeks after Christmas.

"The charges were made for himself, but he met people along the way," said Gunderson, adding that Marshall allegedly ran up expensive bar bills. "He supposedly told people that he inherited a large sum of money as a way of explaining to them why he was spending the way he was."

Gunderson said Marshall went to Fort Lauderdale to visit family.

Mann said his wine shop has also had recent orders for customers that are missing. An investigation continues on those allegations.

Mann said he believes his credit card insurance will settle the mess.

"We should be made whole," he said.

Marshall has been booked into the local jail twice before - both for charges of possession of stolen property late last year.

Mann said the alleged credit card crime happened "out of the blue."

"I don't understand it," he said.

Mann said that, looking back and visiting with staff, he realized Marshall didn't develop friendships at work.

"I just thought, it is what it is, and as long as he gets the job done..." Mann said.

Mann said he wishes he would have put a spending limit on the company credit card.

"There are ways to put limitations on employee use. I didn't understand that at the time," he said.

Mann said he believes there was no spending limit on the card.

"If (the spending) hadn't been caught when it was, it would have likely kept going," Mann said.