Bank employee, friend charged with felony theft www.privateofficer.com

Bank employee, friend charged with felony theft http://www.privateofficer.com

Hixson TN Aug 27 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

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Police investigators were called in when an area bank came up short thousands of dollars and it looked like an inside job.
Now an employee of that Hixson branch of First Volunteer Bank and an acquaintance have been charged in the theft of $13,800 from an ATM machine.

Charged with theft over $10,000 was Misty Smith Hitchcock, 26, of Viewmont Lane in Soddy-Daisy and David Brandon Oliver.

Oliver remains in jail, while Ms. Hitchcock made bond.Police reveiwed video surveillance and said that it showed that on Aug. 6, Ms. Hitchcock and Brandon entered a break room that has access to the ATM. The rear of the ATM is secured with a vault-type door with a combination lock.
The video showed Oliver entering the area of the ATM machine and went to some safe deposit boxes. It was later found that $13,800 in $20 bills was missing.

Police said Ms. Hitchcock denied knowing the combination to the lock, but the numbers were found on a piece of paper at her desk.

Police said $11,000 in cash in $20 bills was found in a safe deposit box that Oliver had access to.
The charges were bound to the Grand Jury from General Sessions Court on Tuesday morning.

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