BAY CITY, Mich.—Alysia M. Wright, 35, a former teller at Copoco Community Credit Union, has pleaded no contest to a charge she stole more than $90,000 from the CU over a three-year period.
Wright pleaded no contest to one count of embezzlement of more than $50,000 but less than $100,000, a 15-year felony. The prosecution agreed that Wright would be sentenced within the guidelines, which have yet to be calculated, according to reports.
According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Dept., deputies were called to the CU on May 22, 2014 after Wright admitted to the embezzling. A representative of the credit union was quoted as saying that Wright had told deputies she would “take money from the till and to make it look like her till was balanced she would write a check for the amount of money she took and put it in her holdover checks. The next time she would steal money, she would add the amount she took this time to the last amount she had already taken. (Wright) would destroy the previous check she wrote and write another one and replace it for the old one with the new balance."
According to police, the theft began in 2012 when Wright stole checks from her sister and brother-in-law to write the spurious ones.
The theft was discovered when a fellow employee discovered three checks in Wright's till, one of which could not be accounted for and was written in the amount of $91,346.73, according to police records. When confronted by CCCU management, Wright reportedly immediately confessed and said, "I owe you guys a lot of money.”
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