Bank Teller

A bank teller manager from Odenton pleaded guilty in federal court in Greenbelt yesterday to embezzling more than $35,000. Theresa Williamson, 40, worked at Wachovia Bank in Laurel starting in 2002, according to court documents. Over two years, she transferred about $35,920 from a vault to her checking account, prosecutors said. The transactions generally involved between $1,000 and $2,000 each. She would create a "miscellaneous cash out ticket" for the amount she had taken to balance the bank's records, documents say. Because the bank rarely audited the vault, the crime was not discovered until an audit Sept.

BASICALLY, you want to live. You want to live as long as possible, in as much good health as possible. You want to enjoy all the benefits of a free society, including microwaveable popcorn. You do not want to go to jail. Generally speaking, you want to live life as most of us know it -- working, playing and loving through four seasons of the year, out here in the open (if not pollution-free) air, pursuing some dream of financial stability, if not affluence, a relatively happy family life and maybe even a sense of accomplishment.

Shirley J. Shanholtz, a retired bank teller and homemaker, died of breast cancer Thursday at her Dundalk home. She was 65. Born and raised Shirley Yannacci in Dundalk, she was a 1958 graduate of Dundalk High School. She attended Dundalk and Essex community colleges. She was married for 41 years to the Rev. Norris M. "Nick" Shanholtz, pastor of New Hope Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in Highlandtown. When her children were older, Mrs. Shanholtz took a job as a bank teller in 1986 at Union Trust Co.'s Dundalk and Carroll Island branches.

Nextel Cup driver Jeff Burton is driving down the road, headed for a race and considering his future. Retirement looms at any moment. Had he chosen to be a bank teller - or any of a thousand other professions - he could plan for his retirement like "normal" people do. "Most people plan for retirement at age 63 or 65," Burton said. "But if you're a sports figure, you don't know when the end is coming. How do I find the answers to: What do I need to do? "You're around people who make so much money.

A 45-year-old Olney man who robbed the same Lisbon bank - and same teller - twice during a three-week period last fall was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison. Jeffrey Wayne Malcolm, who stole $9,150 from teller Deborah Nicholson's window at Westminster Union Bank, pleaded guilty to two counts of common law robbery in March. "I know I did the wrong thing. I want to do the right thing," Malcolm told Howard Circuit Judge Diane O. Leasure in a halting voice just before she handed him a 30-year sentence, suspending all but 20 years, and five years' probation.

Mary E. Tronolone, a bank teller and Wave, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at Gilchrest Center for Hospice Care. She was 83. Born in Mercer County, Ohio, Mrs. Tronolone lived and worked in the Catonsville area for 42 years and was a member of St. Agnes Parish. For the past year and a half she lived in Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville. From 1943 to 1946, Mrs. Tronolone served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service of the Navy, reaching the rank of yeoman first class.

M. Kathy Drew, vice president of the Ocean Pines branch of the Bank of Ocean City, is sipping coffee early one Monday when the teller who handles new accounts runs in, her coat still on. The teller opens the box in her hand to reveal a pair of classic black pumps she discovered while shopping this weekend. Aren't they perfect for the 17-year-old girl the bank has adopted for Christmas? she asks. The tellers already have pitched in to buy the girl a camel-colored skirt, pants and matching jacket.

A hooded man walked into First Union Bank in the 8600 block of Washington Blvd. in Jessup at 1 p.m. yesterday and quietly demanded money from a bank teller. The man implied he had a gun but did not display a weapon, Howard County police said. The teller handed him cash, and the man fled. No customers were in the bank at the time, and no employees were injured, police said. Employees described the man as a white male in his late 20s or early 30s, about 5 feet 9 inches tall with a medium build.

Mary Eileen LeStrange, 77, nursing unit secretary Mary Eileen LeStrange, a former nursing unit secretary at Good Samaritan Hospital, died there Monday while under treatment for a virus. She was 77 and lived in Towson. Until she retired in 1997, Mrs. LeStrange was a secretary in the hospital's Four West Unit for 20 years. Before moving to Baltimore in the late 1970s, Mrs. LeStrange was a medical secretary at Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa., and worked for Columbia Records in Philadelphia.

Police have arrested a 49-year-old man in connection with an armed robbery last month at a First Union Bank in Harundale, according to a report released yesterday by the Anne Arundel County Police Department. Todd Jeffrey Ocus, address unknown, was arrested Tuesday on charges of armed robbery and use of a handgun in the commission of a felony. Ocus is being held on $17,500 bond at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center. Police officials used surveillance video from the bank, at 7700 Ritchie Highway, to identify the suspect.