[KHTS] – A Santa Clarita bank employee charged with stealing nearly $25,000 from Wells Fargo customers was arraigned on four counts Wednesday, including a charge he stole from an 81-year-old woman.
Samuel Jose Godinez, 25, of Valencia, was arrested July 2 and booked for felony commercial burglary, theft by access card and for passing checks with known insufficient funds, officials said.
He was fired from Wells Fargo, where he was an employee, after officials there conducted an investigation into the reports.
“(The District Attorney’s Office) filed four felony counts,” said Ricardo Santiago, spokesman for the D.A.’s office. Count one and two are grand theft of person.
Count three was for knowingly writing checks without sufficient funds for two checks — one for $500 and another for $1,550, officials said.
The second count included an alleged theft from an 81-year-old woman, which prompted the fourth charge of victimizing an elderly woman.
The identity of the victim was not released, but she had $16,418.87 stolen from her account, officials said.
The arraignment was scheduled for Wednesday at Department 130 in at Los Angeles County Superior Court in San Fernando.
Godinez faces a sentence of six years state prison, to be served in county jail, if convicted of all charges.
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