An employee of Brink’s Company has been arrested for allegedly pocketing $27,800 from a Metairie bank ATM that she was supposed to be servicing, according to authorities.
Oprah Canselo, 37, of Harvey, was booked May 28 with felony theft.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to the company’s Metairie office to investigate a complaint.
Officials with the company identified Canselo as an armed security driver for the cash-handling business with armored vehicles, according to authorities. Her job was to deliver money to ATMs, and she’d been with the company for about seven years, the Sheriff’s Office said.
But Brink’s conducted an audit and discovered $27,800 missing from an ATM at a Hancock Whitney Bank on Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, authorities said.
Brink’s officials confronted Canselo, who admitted taking the cash. She also confessed to taking a total of $80,000 because of “financial hardships,” according to authorities.
While the additional money didn’t appear to have been taken from the Metairie bank, the Sheriff’s Office learned that two Hancock Whitney banks in Kentwood were missing about $62,000, authorities said.
No information was immediately available about whether Canselo is suspected in the theft of the additional money.
Canselo was booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna. She was being held there Tuesday with bail set at $35,000.
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