Banker spent customers’ money on designer clothes and food delivery, Alabama cops say

A part-time Regions Bank employee in Alabama was charged by police after she allegedly spent customers’ money on food delivery and children’s clothing, according to authorities and media reports.

Trussville Police charged Amber Jones, 25, with trafficking in stolen identities and two counts of identity theft, the department said in a Facebook post. She was arrested at the bank Friday and had a bank slip in her pocket with a “handwritten debit card number, expiration date and security code” written on it, The Birmingham News reported.

Police told WBRC there are at least seven others in the stolen identity case.

A 17-year-old boy first noted the fraudulent charges and he filed a police report after seeing the charges from a food delivery business on his account, police said, according to a WBRC report. A 95-year-old woman also was defrauded, The Birmingham News reported.

Police found a receipt in Jones’ car from online designer store ChildrensSalon.com, which offers clothing from luxurious brands, according to The Birmingham News. The name on the order matched a separate fraudulent order from a food delivery service, the newspaper reported.

Jones also accessed customers’ accounts to purchase food from Grubhub and Uber Eats, WIAT said. She was using customers’ credit cards for three to four months, police said, according to the Trussville Tribune.

More than $1,000 was stolen from multiple accounts and Jones also shared information from bank accounts with other people, WBRC said, according to police.

When police began their investigation, they noticed all of the cards were from customers at the same bank, the Trussville Tribune reported.

Jones, of Birmingham, was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on a $55,000 bond but has been released, according to jail records.

Regions Bank said in a statement to WIAT it is working closely with law enforcement.

“We appreciate the work of detectives who are pursuing justice in this case,” the bank said. “We have absolutely no tolerance for the activities that are alleged, and we will take appropriate action as additional information is confirmed.”

Last year a former Regions Bank employee in Trussville pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from four customers, according to WBMA.