LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WHTM) — A Florida bank employee is in Dauphin County Prison after police say she swiped $100,000 from a Lower Paxton Township resident.

Dinecia Nicole Josie, 36, of West Palm Beach, Fla., was arrested in the Sunshine State and recently extradited to Pennsylvania on felony identity theft, forgery, theft, and related charges.

According to Lower Paxton Township Police, the thefts date back to June 2022 when a township resident reported unauthorized wire transfers and withdrawals from her PNC Bank account that totaled $100,000.

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Josie was a teller at PNC Bank at the time and all of the unauthorized transactions happened in Florida, where Josie lived, while the victim was still in the Commonwealth.

Police accused Josie of using her position as a bank employee to illegally access banking and personal information of the victim, providing that information to co-conspirators who then completed the fraudulent withdrawals.

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Charges were filed in December of 2023, an arrest warrant was issued, and Josie was recently picked up in Florida and extradited to Pennsylvania.

She was arraigned Tuesday before Magisterial District Judge William Wenner and committed to Dauphin County Prison, unable to post $150,000 bail.

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