Crime & Safety
Ex-Employee Charged with ID Theft on Bank Accounts
Police said one of the accounts used belonged to the woman's deceased relative.
A former Commerce Bank employee was charged May 31 with two counts of identity theft.
said in a report that Detra Harris, 29, of St. Louis, used name and bank account numbers of account holders at the bank and fake identification to pay her bills. She obtained the information at her job at the Commerce Bank call center in Creve Coeur.
According to the report, Harris misappropriated $818 from Sept. 23 and Dec. 30 2010 from the account of her deceased relative. She also misappropriated $3,285 from another account at the bank, police said in the report.
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Bond was set at $5,000.
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