Susan Ross (Photo courtesy of Stone County Sheriff’s Office)
A former employee at a Mountain View bank is accused of making cash withdrawals on six of its elderly customers and another who is deceased. Thirty-seven-year-old Susan Ross of rural Mountain View faces 29 felony counts of non-financial identity fraud, five felony counts of theft of property and two misdemeanor counts of theft of property.
According to the probable cause affidavit, an FBI agent contacted area authorities on June 29 about filing state charges in the matter because he could not file anything on a federal level. An officer spoke to a manager at Simmons Bank in Mountain View, who stated a customer contacted the bank in mid-October about unauthorized withdrawals from her account.
Personnel and the bank’s fraud division conducted an investigation and discovered Ross, who resigned nearly a week earlier, had allegedly conducted cash withdrawals on six accounts held by individuals in an age range of 80 to 93 and another account maintained in the name of a deceased customer. A total of $28,100 was reportedly taken in cash withdrawals by Ross during a 12-month time frame, and none of the victims were present when the transactions occurred. All of the victims were contacted by the bank, and their accounts were corrected.
Ross was booked into the Stone County Detention on Thursday. She was released later that day after posting a bond of $25,000.
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