Woman arrested on bank fraud after allegedly using fraudulent ID to withdraw $7,500 from Siegen bank

BATON ROUGE — A Gretna woman was arrested by East Baton Rouge Parish deputies on bank fraud charges after she was accused of unlawfully withdrawing thousands from a Siegen Lane bank.

Jari Williams, 34, allegedly used an Essential Credit Union customer’s personal information, including social security number and bank account number, to withdraw $7,500 on Sept. 12.

Williams then allegedly returned to the bank to make another cash withdrawal but left the bank after a teller took her ID for verification. The bank later told deputies that the Siegen branch “did sustain a monetary loss associated with this incident.”…

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