January 26, 2012 Two former Hampton Roads Transit employees plead guily of embezzlement www.privateofficer.com
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. Jan 26 2012 - Two former Hampton Roads Transit employees pleaded guilty to embezzling close to $50,000 from the company.
24-year-olds Karen Watkins and Latasha Kiana Boyd were employed as vault pullers. Between Jan. 1, 2009 and Oct. 31, 2009, the Commonwealth’s Attorney says, both women visited the Park Avenue trolley station in Virginia Beach to collect the stored bus and trolley fares. The fares were then to be delivered to a money room in Norfolk.
Wednesday’s release states money pulled from the vault is kept inside a sealed container, but the container at the trolley station was not sealed, allowing the pullers access to the money inside.
HRT soon saw differences in the data collected from the buses at the trolley station and the actual money received. The company determined each incident involving a discrepancy occurred on days Boyd and Watkins were working without a security guard.
On Aug. 29, 2009, Boyd and Watkins were seen driving the HRT money van to a home before going to the money room in Norfolk. Both women were suspended.
The Commonwealth’s Attorney says from Jan. 2009 through Oct. 2009, Watkins and Boyd made frequent bank deposits of $1 bills. In all, Boyd took $24,414 while Watkins embezzled $23,969.
Both will be sentenced April 25.
Source:WAVY.com
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