A woman has been indicted in federal court for allegedly using another person\u2019s Automated Teller Machine card 46 times to fraudulently withdraw $2,300 from the real owner\u2019s personal savings account at Bank of Guam. <\/p>\n
The indictment charged Esperanza E. Ellis with bank fraud.<\/p>\n
At her initial appearance hearing on Monday, Ellis, through counsel Bruce Berline, pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Court for the NMI Magistrate Judge Heather L. Kennedy set the jury trial for June 23, 2014.<\/p>\n
Assistant U.S. attorney Ross Naughton stated that the U.S. government would not be asking for the continued detention of Ellis.<\/p>\n
Kennedy ordered that Ellis be released on her own personal recognizance with some conditions.<\/p>\n
The judge unsealed the case.<\/p>\n
According to the indictment, a person by the initials S.M., residing on Saipan, held a personal savings account at Bank of Guam.<\/p>\n
On June 29, 2012, while filling out paperwork to update her account information at the bank, S.M. inadvertently wrote down her Saipan mailing address as P.O. Box. 504858.<\/p>\n
As a result of writing the incorrect mailing address, S.M.\u2019s mailing address for Bank of Guam purposes became P.O. Box 504858.<\/p>\n
A new BOG ATM payment card in S.M.\u2019s name was mailed to S.M. at P.O. Box 504858. Around the same time, a new personal identification number, corresponding to S.M.\u2019s new ATM card, was mailed to S.M. at P.O. Box 504858.<\/p>\n
S.M. received neither the new ATM card nor the new PIN, because she did not have access to P.O. Box 504858.<\/p>\n
P.O. Box 504858 was registered to Ellis, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n
Beginning July 15, 2012 until Sept. 19, 2012, used S.M.\u2019s ATM card and PIN 46 times to fraudulently withdraw funds approximately $2,300 from S.M.\u2019s savings account at BOG.<\/p>\n
The indictment did not mention how authorities discovered the fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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