Court: Michigan woman staged bank robbery to hide theft

A Mason woman staged an armed bank robbery in 2013 in an attempt to cover up the more than $95,000 she stole during the roughly three and a half years prior, according to court records.

Megan Kolberg began working at Mason State Bank in December 2009 as a teller and was later named the head teller, which gave her oversight of all accounts at her branch, sole control of her own teller drawer, the automated teller machine and her head teller vault, according to the plea agreement filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.



Kolberg "regularly embezzled cash from the bank and concealed her embezzlement by making false entries in the bank's books and records regarding the amount of cash actually contained in the accounts that she controlled," according to the agreement.

She embezzled more than $95,000 from the bank between December 2009 and May 2013. When the bank and law enforcement began to uncover the thefts, Kolberg staged an armed robbery in an effort to explain why the accounts she controlled had higher balances than what was actually in the bank, according to the agreement.