Bank Teller Who Stole $250K Pleads Guilty To Fraud, ID Theft

UPPER MARLBORO, MD — A former Clinton bank teller pleaded guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft for stealing about $255,000 from clients, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.

Mountee Brown, 27, pleaded guilty in connection to a scheme to steal funds from bank customers. Brown worked as a bank teller in Upper Marlboro and accessed the bank accounts of five victims, four who were older than 80, a news release said.

Between October and November 2022, Brown and his co-conspirators devised a scheme to use his position as a bank teller to make at least 26 unauthorized cash withdrawals involving the victims’ accounts including $10,000, $20,000 and $30,000 withdrawals., according to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Brown and his unnamed co-conspirators began their scheme on Oct. 21, 2022, when they conducted a $10,000 cash withdrawal from a victim's account without their knowledge or consent. Brown made the cash withdrawal by falsely documenting that he verified the customer, the customer was a “known client,” and that the customer was known by Brown’s supervisor.

According to prosecutors, the next day Brown and his co-conspirator completed two more unauthorized withdrawals totaling $20,000. The same day, Brown deposited about $4,300 in cash in an account at another financial institution.

On Oct. 25, 2022, another co-conspirator and Brown made a $10,000 cash withdrawal from a second victim’s account.

On the same day, the pair took $10,000 cash from a third victim’s account.

Between Oct. 22, 2022, and Dec. 6, 2022, Brown made cash deposits of about $30,200 into his personal account at another financial institution, prosecutors said.