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Former credit union manager indicted
By Chris Paschenko
The Daily News
Published April 25, 2008
SANTA FE — A former credit union manager was arrested Thursday on an 11-count federal indictment in which she stands accused of stealing $246,000 and the identities of friends and family.
Santa Fe police detectives and agents of the U.S. Secret Service arrested Edie Marie Minter, 44, of Texas City, after a joint investigation into the disappearance of $122,000 from the Santa Fe branch of Associated Credit Union of Texas beginning in June 2007.
Santa Fe Police Chief Barry Cook said Minter was previously charged in state district court in the theft of $25,000 from the credit union.
An audit of Minter’s former bank transactions reportedly revealed a $122,000 cash loss and seven fraudulent loans, Cook said. The loans resulted in the credit union’s loss of $124,000, he said.
The loans were all created in the names of Minter’s relatives and friends without their consent, Cook said.
The indictment includes one count of theft by a bank employee, five counts of aggravated identity theft and five counts of bank fraud.
Cook said the state’s charges were dismissed and then included in the federal indictment.
Detective Wayne Kessler of Santa Fe police said Texas City police assisted in Minter’s arrest at her Texas City home at 7 a.m. Thursday.
She was held at the Federal Detention Center in Houston on a $100,000 signature bond, Kessler said.
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