CLEVELAND A former branch manager at a Smithville bank was sentenced Monday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling roughly $84,000 from an elderly person with dementia.
Audrey I. Whitworth, 26, of Rittman, worked at Farmers National Bank when she stole roughly $84,000 by making unauthorized withdrawals from the account of an 84-year-old customer, according to federal court records.
Whitworth was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Donald C. Nugent on charges of bank embezzlement and aggravated identity theft, according to a news release Monday from Justin Herdman, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
According to court records, from June 23, 2017, to August 5, 2019, while Whitworth was employed as the branch manager of the federally-insured bank, she embezzled funds from the victim s savings or checkings account 37 times.