ALLENTOWN, Penn. – Two employees at Lehigh Valley Hospital were charged with stealing at least $9,000 from a Peoples First FCU ATM and tampered with the ATM to make it appear they had taken nothing.
The two workers stole as much as $7,800 from the machine from September 2011 to this month, according to police.
Police said the cash machine, which sits outside the hospital’s cafeteria, shut down around the time of each unexplained cash loss, and that the suspects were the last to use the ATM before it was disabled. After hospital security set up a video camera to monitor the machine, it recorded the two workers using the ATM just before the machine sensed an irregularity and shut down.
Because the shutdown happened as the money was dispensed, the ATM voided the transaction in its records, producing statements that indicated no money was withdrawn, police said.
The employees allegedly have confessed to the theft.
