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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A 26-year-old Martinsburg woman was arraigned Wednesday in the theft of more than $53,000 from the Martinsburg Mall branch office of Mountain Heritage Federal Credit Union while employed as the head teller, Berkeley County Magistrate Court records show. Rebekah D. Bartley of 119 N. High St., was charged with one felony count of embezzlement after an investigation by bank officials at the branch office at 800 Foxcroft Ave. and Martinsburg Police Department officer E.L. Chrisman.

waynesboro@herald-mail.com MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg man has been charged with robbing a teller through a drive-in window at a Berkeley County, W.Va., credit union Thursday afternoon and making off with more than $5,000 in cash. Kevin Huff, 33, was arrested shortly after the hold-up and charged with bank robbery, according to Chief Deputy Kenneth Lemaster of the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department. Lemaster said a man walked up to a teller's window at the Eastern Panhandle Community Federal Credit Union at 36 GM Access Road and told the male teller that it was a robbery and to hand him the money in his drawer.

A determined thief managed to steal money from a Hagerstown Trust bank night deposit box by yanking it open and fishing out the contents Monday night or Tuesday morning, police said. The metal deposit box was mounted on the brick outside wall of the Hagerstown Trust branch at 1551 Potomac Ave. The boxes are used primarily by commercial customers to make after-hours deposits using a key to open it. The device opens toward the depositor like a glovebox, police said. Bags containing an undisclosed amount of money were taken, said Dave Barnhart, Hagerstown Trust vice president of marketing.

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - Orrstown Bank recently held a fundraiser in honor of employee Christine Yohe, who was diagnosed in February with breast cancer. Yohe, of Shippensburg, works as a teller at the bank's King Street office. Customer service representative Heather Fisher and teller Pamela Varner, of the King Street office, coordinated the fundraiser. A Longaberger mug raffle and cash donations from Orrstown Bank employees raised $1,200. Yohe chose the Cumberland Valley Breast Care Alliance (CVBCA)

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Police are looking for a woman who robbed a Martinsburg bank Monday afternoon. Martinsburg Police Det. Sgt. George Swartwood said police were called to First United Bank, 980 Foxcroft Ave., at 1:30 p.m. for a report of a bank robbery. Police said the woman approached a teller and gave her a note demanding money. She told the teller that she had an explosive device, police said in a news release. The teller gave the woman an undisclosed amount of money and the woman left the bank, police said.

Police investigate bank robbery in Franklin County SCOTLAND, Pa. - A man who displayed a gun robbed a local bank Monday afternoon, according to police. The robber entered Citizen's National Bank in the Chambersburg Mall at 12:15 p.m. and demanded money from a teller, police said. The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of money, and the robber left through the front door, police said. The man is described as a white male, 40 to 50 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall with brown hair.

Frederick County investigators were searching for a man who they allege robbed a Frederick bank Friday by pretending to be a customer until he confronted a teller. The man entered the Comstar Federal Credit Union at 5301 Buckeystown Pike, Suite 205, around 3:30 p.m. Friday, according to a news release from the Frederick County Sheriff's Department. He acted as a customer until he reached a teller, at which point he ordered her to give him an undiclosed amount of money, the release said.

CHARLES TOWN, W.VA. - A man who robbed a Bank of Charles Town branch office in Kearneysville, W.Va., last Thursday referred to "explosions" when he walked up to a teller's window, police records state. On Friday, police arrested a Jefferson County, W.Va., man in connection with the robbery after West Virginia State Police received a tip about his whereabouts, police said. William Hause, 44, was arrested about 8 a.m. at a mobile home along Three Run Road in the Inwood, W.Va.

A Harpers Ferry area man accused of robbing a City National Bank branch in Ranson, W.Va., on Monday has been charged in the Dec. 22 robbery of BB&T bank just outside of Martinsburg, the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday night. An arrest warrant charging Mark Daniel Haines, 40, with non-aggravated robbery in the BB&T holdup was issued Thursday, Berkeley County Sheriff’s Deputy Lt. Gary Harmison said. Haines, who lives at 152 Red Bird Lane in the Shannondale subdivision, also is a “primary suspect” in the Dec. 22 robbery of a Susquehanna Bank drive-up office at 17301 Valley Mall Road near Hagerstown, Cpl. Greg Alton, an investigator with the Washington County Sheriff's Office, said Thursday night.

Fewer than 20 minutes after the Hagerstown Trust bank on Wesel Boulevard was robbed Thursday afternoon, police arrested a man in a wooded area about a mile away and charged him with the holdup. Colin Barret Walker, 23, whose last known address was in Gaithersburg, Md., was charged with one count each of robbery and theft. Bond of $100,000 was set on the charges related to the bank robbery and $2,000 bond was set for two unrelated outstanding warrants, a bond commissioner said Thursday.

A Harpers Ferry area man accused of robbing a City National Bank branch in Ranson, W.Va., on Monday has been charged in the Dec. 22 robbery of BB&T bank just outside of Martinsburg, the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday night. An arrest warrant charging Mark Daniel Haines, 40, with non-aggravated robbery in the BB&T holdup was issued Thursday, Berkeley County Sheriff’s Deputy Lt. Gary Harmison said. Haines, who lives at 152 Red Bird Lane in the Shannondale subdivision, also is a “primary suspect” in the Dec. 22 robbery of a Susquehanna Bank drive-up office at 17301 Valley Mall Road near Hagerstown, Cpl. Greg Alton, an investigator with the Washington County Sheriff's Office, said Thursday night.

Frederick County investigators were searching for a man who they allege robbed a Frederick bank Friday by pretending to be a customer until he confronted a teller. The man entered the Comstar Federal Credit Union at 5301 Buckeystown Pike, Suite 205, around 3:30 p.m. Friday, according to a news release from the Frederick County Sheriff's Department. He acted as a customer until he reached a teller, at which point he ordered her to give him an undiclosed amount of money, the release said.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Police were looking for a man who Friday morning robbed the Martinsburg Mall branch of Mountain Heritage Federal Credit Union, according to a Martinsburg Police Department news release. No one was injured in the robbery at 800 Foxcroft Ave., which occurred at 8:13 a.m., according to Martinsburg Police Cpl. S.F. Doyle. The man told a teller he was armed with a firearm, passed a note demanding money and took an undisclosed amount of cash from two tellers before leaving the bank, according to the news release.

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - Orrstown Bank recently held a fundraiser in honor of employee Christine Yohe, who was diagnosed in February with breast cancer. Yohe, of Shippensburg, works as a teller at the bank's King Street office. Customer service representative Heather Fisher and teller Pamela Varner, of the King Street office, coordinated the fundraiser. A Longaberger mug raffle and cash donations from Orrstown Bank employees raised $1,200. Yohe chose the Cumberland Valley Breast Care Alliance (CVBCA)

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Patriot Federal Credit Union recently opened a "smart" automated teller machine at the corner of West Queen and West Loudon streets near the Southgate Shopping Center in Chambersburg. The state-of-the-art ATM will provide instant acknowledgment of cash and check deposits, and provide members with faster funds availability. Checks are fed into the machine, without an envelope, where they are imaged and printed on the receipt. Up to 100 unfolded bills can be deposited, with cash facing in any direction.

First National Bank of Mercersburg MERCERSBURG, Pa. - Patricia M. Walker recently retired from her role as consumer loan manager with The First National Bank of Mercersburg. Walker joined the bank in January 1994 and has provided the community with a superior level of dedication and customer service. Her professional knowledge and leadership ability have produced an extremely effective consumer department and resulted in numerous customers realizing their dreams of home ownership.

Maryland State Police on Wednesday were looking for a suspect in connection with a June 21 armed robbery at the M&T Bank at 14 W. Potomac St. in Williamsport, Sgt. Dave Bowers said. Troopers released images of the man that were taken during the robbery. The suspect was described as a man in his early to mid-20s, about 6 feet tall with a slender build, Maryland State Police said. The man was clean-shaven with a ruddy (reddish) complexion and was wearing a bright blue T-shirt and dark baggy jeans during the robbery, troopers said in a news release.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A 26-year-old Martinsburg woman was arraigned Wednesday in the theft of more than $53,000 from the Martinsburg Mall branch office of Mountain Heritage Federal Credit Union while employed as the head teller, Berkeley County Magistrate Court records show. Rebekah D. Bartley of 119 N. High St., was charged with one felony count of embezzlement after an investigation by bank officials at the branch office at 800 Foxcroft Ave. and Martinsburg Police Department officer E.L. Chrisman.

CHARLES TOWN, W.VA. - A man who robbed a Bank of Charles Town branch office in Kearneysville, W.Va., last Thursday referred to "explosions" when he walked up to a teller's window, police records state. On Friday, police arrested a Jefferson County, W.Va., man in connection with the robbery after West Virginia State Police received a tip about his whereabouts, police said. William Hause, 44, was arrested about 8 a.m. at a mobile home along Three Run Road in the Inwood, W.Va.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Police are looking for a woman who robbed a Martinsburg bank Monday afternoon. Martinsburg Police Det. Sgt. George Swartwood said police were called to First United Bank, 980 Foxcroft Ave., at 1:30 p.m. for a report of a bank robbery. Police said the woman approached a teller and gave her a note demanding money. She told the teller that she had an explosive device, police said in a news release. The teller gave the woman an undisclosed amount of money and the woman left the bank, police said.