PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A supervisor at Columbus CU who reported a robbery at the CU last year, pleaded guilty Thursday to separately stealing $437,000 herself from the credit union's vault, ATM and cash shipments.
In September 2012, police were investigating a masked woman who dropped a fake bomb on the counter, demanded money and fled with $11,000 as well as her three-year-old son waiting in the getaway car. That suspect, Jennefer Gomes, 34, was caught and charged with first-degree robbery. When the detectives later mentioned auditing the credit union, supervisor Crystal Ferreira, 26, overheard -- and confessed to the CEO and detectives that she'd embezzled at least $437,000 since June, according to police.
Ferreira, who worked as a supervisor at an East Providence branch, is scheduled to be sentenced in January.
