ALLENTOWN, Penn–A former employee of Allentown FCU has been accused of stealing more than $600,000 from the credit union, while another former CU employee has been sent to prison for a hit-and-run.
In Allentown, Penn., the United States Attorney has charged Julie Ann Turk, 46, with one count of bank fraud, one count of bank embezzlement and three counts of money laundering for the alleged theft of $641,637.
According to the U.S. Attorney, the alleged embezzlement took place between January of 2009 and April of 2016. Should Turk be convicted, the sentence could have been as long as 90 years.
Meanwhile, in Bartow, Fla., Jarvis Kendrick, a former senior vice president with MidFlorida Credit Union, has been sentenced to four years in prison for a hit-and-run crash in Lakeland, Fla., in October 2016 that killed a 74-year-old pedestrian.
Facing up to 30 years in prison after pleading no contest in August 2017 to leaving the scene of a crash involving a fatality, Circuit Judge Kevin Abdoney instead sentenced Kendrick to the minimum mandatory term for that crime.
Kendrick’s lawyer had asked the judge to give Kendrick, 38, probation, arguing that he did return to the scene of the crash but left again before law enforcement arrived. Shearer also said there was no suspicion that Kendrick was intoxicated when the crash occurred.
Instead, the judge sentenced Kendrick to four years in prison for attempted tampering with evidence for removing what remained of his truck’s damaged side mirror, to be served concurrently with the other sentence. He also imposed 10 years’ probation following the prison term.
Killed was Janice Joy, who was walking along Duff Road at 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 6, 2016, when she was hit by the side mirror on Kendrick’s 2005 Ford F-150 pickup. She died along the roadside.
Kendrick had testified that he didn’t see Joy, but felt the bump when his truck hit her.