PHILADELPHIA – A man wanted on charges that he tapped into his company’s bank account and used stolen cash to take two strippers on a trip to Miami was captured when he couldn’t find enough money to pay a highway toll, authorities said.

Investigators said they had been searching for Guillermo A. Martinez, of Philadelphia, since September, when he was accused of using a debit card to steal about $150,000 from the nursing home company where he worked.

He was arrested the day before Thanksgiving when he drove into a a toll plaza near Annapolis, Md., and gave his real name on a form that would have allowed him to pay later by mail.

“The toll taker ran a check and saw that we’d issued a warrant for him in September,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney John Pease.

When he is brought back to Pennsylvania, Martinez will face charges of access device fraud for allegedly using a bank card to make more than 400 unauthorized withdrawals from an account owned by his employer, Hospicomm Inc., of Philadelphia.

According to a federal indictment unsealed Monday, Martinez used some of the cash to take two “entertainers” from a Philadelphia strip club on a trip to Miami. The thefts and the trip took place between July 2002 and May 2003, authorities said.

Martinez, 40, also faces weapons charges in Maryland. A semiautomatic pistol and several knives were found in Martinez’ car when he was arrested at the toll plaza, Pease said.

Martinez was being held on a $150,000 bond, and was likely to be sent to Pennsylvania after a hearing, Pease said. Authorities said they did not know whether Martinez had an attorney.

Hospicomm manages 15 nursing homes and outpatient facilities. Prosecutors said that as part of his job, Martinez could transfer funds controlled by one of those facilities, the Hamilton Center for Continuing Care in Hamilton, N.J.