A federal grand jury indicted a former San Francisco bank employee for allegedly using customers’ debit cards to steal bank funds, authorities announced Monday.
The U.S. District Attorney’s Office identified the defendant as San Francisco resident Sixto Christopher Porras, 32. According to a June 17 filed indictment unsealed Monday, Porras was an associate banker at a national bank’s San Francisco branch. The DA’s office did not name the bank.
In the first incident, Porras was accused of keeping a customer’s debit card and obtaining their security personal identification number around August 2023, after the customer visited the branch to complete a wire transfer. Using the debit card, Porras allegedly embezzled about $100,000 from the customer’s account…