Bank Teller Withdraws Money from Elderly Person
The Daily Journal in Redwood City, CA has reported that a bank teller faces a year in prison after stealing roughly $40,000 from her elderly aunt’s bank account and $33,000 from a 16-year-old girl’s account. 28-year-old Arcelia Barajas Aguilar reportedly stole her mother’s Social Security number to get a job as a bank teller and stole the money.
The transfers she conducted were discovered during a bank audit, according to the report. Aguilar pleaded no contest to felony charges of grand theft and elder fiscal abuse. A judge stated the jail term that Aguilar faces will be dependent on the amount of compensation she can pay before the day of her sentencing on October 13th.
People will go to huge lengths to steal money from others including committing identity theft in order to do so. This only complicates matters for them as they end up facing more severe charges if police or other authorities are able to catch them. The report states that Aguilar used the money that she stole in order to pay off credit card debt. However, there is no excuse for committing a crime like this, especially when it involves stealing money from relatives.
