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What is going on with First Community Bank in Hays?

sittinbythebay

Posted 9:14 am, 01/30/2020

Very interesting.

antithesis

Posted 12:17 pm, 01/29/2020

It was in the JP but the Town tried to cover it up. I don't think that he was officially charged and they fired him in a private session to keep the details out of the news, but the accusation and loss of funds was public knowledge.

If I remember correctly, he was using the Town credit card to take vacations and pay for personal expenses. But I could be wrong, it was 9 or 10 years ago.

sittinbythebay

Posted 10:01 am, 01/29/2020

So was Keith charged? If not, I thought you couldn't put his name on GW.

antithesis

Posted 9:31 am, 01/28/2020

I came across this while looking for Keith Deveraux's case...


Whatever happened to Tiffany Prevette's charges? I can't find anything about the outcome of the case.

antithesis

Posted 8:42 am, 01/15/2020

Another Bank Embezzling Report

The Wilkes Sheriff's Office has received yet another report of possible embezzling from the First Community Bank in Hays. The report came in last week and stated that over $6800 was taken from a bank customer's account. Back in December, the Wilkes Sheriff's Office arrested two former First Community Bank Employees. First Community Bank reported the larceny of over $11,000 from the Mountain View Road branch office. That initial larceny report was the result of an internal bank audit.


http://wwwc.squarespace.com...eport.html

Drive352

Posted 9:00 pm, 12/18/2019

They probably meant 30,000 as a whole. They have many more locations in Virginia and West Virginia. Only 5 in North Carolina. They still have access to all other accounts, not just those opened at that particular branch.

backwater

Posted 4:27 pm, 12/18/2019

A poster quoted the 30 k.

sittinbythebay

Posted 3:09 pm, 12/18/2019

Where did 30,000 customers come from? I missed that post.

backwater

Posted 3:04 pm, 12/18/2019

I do not believe that little bank in Hays has ever had 30,000 customers since it has been open.Population of Wilkes is 68,000 plus 7 more banks in Wilkes!

sittinbythebay

Posted 8:42 am, 12/18/2019

Well, they better keep digging, because she has been there for around 20 years.

Drive352

Posted 8:08 am, 12/18/2019

Well, first off, that's why you should ALWAYS balance your check book! Always, always, always! A lot of people don't and it blows my mind.

Second, I feel sorry for her son. He's now a freshman at North High. He is a wonderful child and excels both academically and athletically. Hopefully, he continues to grow up to be a better person than his mom and dad. I just hope the kids haven't been mean to him either to his face or behind his back - but we know it's surely happened. It's not his fault what his parents have chosen to do.

dillirgaf

Posted 9:02 pm, 12/17/2019

Any and all people with an account at the bank need to demand an audit on their account. As stated earlier, it would be an easy matter for money to be skimmed from any account a few dollars a month etc. If the manager of the bank would take from the school of which her son attends, (also charged with the PTO missing funds), then she would definitely go to any length to take whatever she could from the bank customers. For all the years Jamie Gambill was at the bank, that is how long you can assume money has been embezzled.

nw854212

Posted 10:42 pm, 12/16/2019

Does anyone know how many people this involved because i'm worried about my cousin having an account there if people are takin money from people.

1048andonehalf

Posted 9:00 pm, 12/14/2019

I would say that nest egg is in some drug dealer's pocket.

dillirgaf

Posted 8:41 pm, 12/14/2019

You have the wrong idea. These crimes were not done for the amount of money in which you see posted. That is just what can be proven in a court of law without a shadow of a doubt in front of a jury. Imagine this if you will-- lets say there are 30,000 customers with accounts at the bank. Each month, 20.00 bucks, and in some cases more, is skimmed from each account. How many of you with an account at that bank would be able to catch that? That is just ONE example of ONE way that it could be done. If one knew the actual dollar amount that in reality has been embezzled from the bank over the many years that Jamie and whoever else she convinced to assist in her scheme has embezzled, it would be an enormous amount. She did not risk and ruin her reputation for a few dollars. This has been a very lucrative business for many many years, and now, she has been caught. I would say that the investigation is still ongoing. Seems it would be a long and difficult task for auditors and fraud control to get to the bottom of just how deep this well goes! Add the PTO dollars to that total, and I would think she has a pretty good nest egg planted somewhere!

1048andonehalf

Posted 10:39 pm, 12/12/2019

Committing a crime for that amount of money is not very bright. Witch is worse being known as a thief or being known for such a petty thief?

sittinbythebay

Posted 8:39 am, 12/12/2019

Heard from a good source that it is so deep they can't go back far enough to find all of the issues. Missing money, payments people paid not credited to their accounts, etc, lots and lots of money.

CitizenBee

Posted 7:01 pm, 12/11/2019

I would be very worried if I had money in that bank .

Shh..itsasecret

Posted 5:48 pm, 12/11/2019

I see Jamie and Erin were both arrested today.

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