Eugene police on Tuesday, Jan. 20, arrested a 50-year-old former Northwest Community Credit Union worker suspected of fraudulently accessing the accounts of deceased credit union members, a police spokesperson said.
Teresa Lynn Margiotta was booked into Lane County Jail on suspicion of 38 separate counts of first-degree forgery, as well as numerous other complaints, including first-degree aggravated theft.
Formal charges filed Wednesday in Lane County Circuit Court named 20 victims of aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors charged Margiotta with four counts of aggravated identity theft and four counts of first-degree aggravated theft. Margiotta remained in jail as of Wednesday afternoon…