Justice delayed is better than no justice ever.

The Grand Rapids Press: Woman, bank reach deal over missing bank bag

A hair salon receptionist wrongly accused of embezzlement reached an out-of-court settlement today with the bank that lost her night deposit.
Lisa Hansen, 25, of Grand Rapids, signed settlement documents with Huntington Banks shortly after 8 a.m....

Due to time constraints, we now move to further action.


Hansen was accused of embezzlement, fired from her job at Panopoulos East salon, jailed for four hours and served 40 hours of community service after a deposit she made came up missing in September 2005 at the Huntington branch, 1901 Breton Road SE....

Give her a lie detector test! They can read people's minds!

She was fired, then failed a lie-detector test before she was charged with embezzlement.

Obviously, she was guilty...

Still defiant and unwilling to plead guilty, she served 40 hours of community service in a diversion program, filing papers for Kent County Friend of the Court.

How dare she?

Bank officials, suspecting that bags were getting caught in the deposit box, asked a security technician to check on it nearly a year later.

"Suspecting"?

The worker said it took him less than a minute with a flashlight to find the bag on a hidden shelf on Aug. 9. He questioned why the bank didn't call him after the bag disappeared.

OOPS!

The lessons here, kiddies? NEVER agree to take a "lie detector" test, even if you didn't do it and NEVER accept a plea deal if you are innocent!


The Kalamazoo Gazette: Expert says lost bank bag was easy to find

The service worker who recently found a lost deposit in a bank's night-deposit box, clearing the name of a hair-salon receptionist, said it took less than a minute with a flashlight to make the discovery.

Duane Hoops, of Zeeland, said he cannot understand why Huntington Bank didn't call him when the bag of money and checks came up missing nearly a year ago.

"Most banks that I've gone out to, that have a deposit missing, they do call us and say, 'Check for a missing deposit,''' Hoops said.

"For some reason, I don't know why, they didn't call us the week it happened.''

He said he "absolutely'' would have found the bag of cash and checks in September 2005, saving former Panopoulos receptionist Lisa Hansen from nearly a year of misery.

The 25-year-old Grand Rapids woman was fired, charged with embezzlement, booked in jail and served 40 hours of community service, all the while maintaining her innocence.

Hoops, a technician for Novi-based Security Corp., which has service contracts with local banks, said he found the bag on a hidden shelf in the night-deposit box.

"`It was in a place that in nearly 20 years I've never seen something like that happen,'' he said. "A normal person would not have been able to see it. Since I've been doing it so long, I know what to look for. I noticed it almost right away.''