Pennsylvania bank manager allegedly stole over $31,000 from 6 dead customers' accounts

In Pennsylvania, authorities person charged a erstwhile slope manager, alleging she took tens of thousands of dollars from deceased slope customers.

According to a merchandise from the Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office, Jeri Mains, 43, a erstwhile slope manager of the First Commonwealth Bank successful Derry, allegedly stole much than $31,000 from six antithetic slope accounts that belonged to individuals who had died (1).

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The territory attorney's merchandise says that an interior probe by the slope recovered "several forged interior withdrawal tickets" from accounts allegedly accessed by Mains.

"Derry Police said the accounts were accessed by Mains without authorization oregon support betwixt April of 1, 2026 until May 1, 2026, with a full of $31,769.80 removed from the six accounts," the merchandise says.

The constabulary probe besides recovered that Mains allegedly "prepared withdrawal tickets to region the wealth from an account, often portion nary customers were successful the slope astatine the clip of the transactions."

The territory attorney's merchandise besides says Mains allegedly forged immoderate of the deceased relationship holders' signatures, different slope employees' signatures and "changed accounts from restricted to progressive successful an effort to region the money."

The charges that Mains is facing see forgery, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property.

'Shocked' by allegations

According to a CBS News Pittsburgh report, the transgression ailment says Mains allegedly withdrew conscionable implicit $4,500 connected April 1, then, 2 days later, forged different employee's signature to instrumentality $1,300 from a antithetic deceased person's relationship (2).

"Investigators said surveillance video shows her past depositing that wealth into her ain relationship astatine the bank," CBS reported.

Mains allegedly took astir $2,200 connected April 8, forging different employee's signature, investigators said, past withdrawing astir $5,000 from different relationship connected the aforesaid day, CBS reported.

Police said Mains allegedly made her biggest withdrawal, much than $10,000, connected April 22, and past yet took adjacent to $9,000 connected May 1 aft forging a signature of an worker who wasn't astatine the bank, according to the CBS report.