Drive-Thru Teller Guilty OfEmbezzlement

RICHMOND, Ind. - (11/29/05) -- A former teller at the drive-thrustation at Natco CU pleaded guilty last week to embezzling almost$30,000 from members' accounts. Crystal Bottomly, 24, confessed toaccessing the accounts without authorization, then withdrawingmoney form the accounts. Bottomly spent most of her time working atthe drive-thru teller station which was not quipped withsurveillance cameras, like other teller stations were. She had apasscode to access the credit union's computer system to processtransactions.

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