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Police Say Local Bank Manager
Dipped into ATM's for Big Bucks!
Are
you missing money
from your
Community Bank of Tri-county account in past two years?
Police Say Man Hit
Bank for Over $46,000
and it took the Bank 2 years to notice!
Run, don't walk, to this bank
and close your account if this is the way they do business!
LEXINGTON PARK (FORMERLY KNOWN AS SIN CITY)
--- Take a look at your own
bank account if you are a customer of Community Bank of Tri-County, as a local
bank says their Lexington Park manager stole cash, on perhaps a daily basis,
from ATM machine funds, over the past two years.
Toby Bush, the bank manager, might have dipped into your account too! Who would
know? Certainly not the bank as it took the bank two years to find out Bush was
allegedly bilking the bank of money, will they worry about your money?
Take a long, hard look! Remember, its all about your money.
St. Mary's Sheriff's Detective Steve Hall, a member of the joint criminal
investigation team of the Maryland State Police and the St. Mary's Sheriff's
Dept. reports that on March 24, 2005, during a routine audit of Community Bank
of Tri-County's Lexington Park branch ATM, the auditors discovered that the cash
amount reported on the books of the bank did not agree with the physical
inventory of cash in the ATM.
Police say that further investigation revealed that Branch Manager Bush, had
allegedly been stealing cash from the ATM machine during the end-of-the-day
reconciliation. The thefts could actually be much more, considering the police
probe has only been conducted over a period of a few days.
Bank officials reported the theft to police but wanted to have the amount of the
theft concealed, no wonder there! How could anyone trust the bank with
their money when the bank doesn't keep a good count?
Police say Bush was subsequently arrested and charged with one count of theft
over $500. The full amount of the loss is still under investigation by the bank.