Three former Residents Financial institution tellers at department areas within the Boston space are accused of stealing greater than $90,000 from prospects’ accounts.
“They used their positions of trust to invade accounts and allegedly used their co-conspirators to successfully take substantial sums from the bank,” stated Middlesex District Lawyer Marian Ryan. “The investigators at Citizen’s Bank identified the suspicious transactions and brought them to our attention, which has enabled us to seek charges to hold these defendants accountable.”
Ryan’s workplace has charged three Boston defendants with comparable crimes within the alleged scheme, through which the tellers paid out funds to suspected associates at their respective areas from accounts of financial institution prospects.
Yeimaly Moscat, 23, and Yojairis Suazo, 21, have been arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court docket on Thursday on fees of larceny over $1,200 by scheme, embezzlement by a financial institution worker, conspiracy to commit larceny and tried larceny.
Moscat, who faces a number of counts of some fees, had bail set at $1,000. Suazo, who faces single counts solely, was launched on private recognizance. Each have been ordered to avoid Residents Financial institution areas.
A 3rd defendant, Angelica Morales, 31, is scheduled for arraignment on Dec. 12.
Moscat and Suazo are alleged to have began the scheme, and Morales is alleged to have joined a 12 months later.
Moscat labored at a department in Somerville the place between September and November 2022 she allegedly stole $40,900 throughout 12 unauthorized withdrawals. In the identical time interval, Suazo is alleged to have stolen $30,850 throughout 15 unauthorized transactions at a Dorchester department.
Roughly a 12 months later, between November and December 2023, Morales is alleged to have stolen $20,000 throughout 5 unauthorized transactions at a Mattapan financial institution department.
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