LAWTON, Okla. An employee of a local security company this week pleaded guilty to stealing $850,000 from ATMs she was servicing, including $595,000 from cash machines at Fort Sill FCU.
Maria Martin, 47, worked for A&H Security, which serviced Lawton-area ATMs for local credit unions and banks, according to prosecutors. Her duties included replenishing ATMs with cash from financial institutions' vaults. In late 2011 and early 2012, Martin started taking cash from the vaults and keeping it rather than using it to replenish the ATMs.
Authorities identified Martin by matching detailed financial records from the credit unions and banks and security logs from the security company and were able to build a case for the prosecution.
The case is the latest made public in which credit union cash has been siphoned on the way to the ATM. Earlier this year, a 69-year-old employee of an armored car company in Honolulu was convicted of stealing $164,000 from four Hickam FCU ATMs he was supposed to be filling with cash.
