Former Pocatello restaurant server arrested for allegedly stealing from customers

POCATELLO — A female constabulary opportunity stole mini amounts of money from dozens of customers betwixt January and March has been charged pinch 58 felonies.

Samantha Nova Wolff, 43, faces 29 counts of fraud and 29 counts of expansive theft, tribunal records show.

Pocatello constabulary received a study connected May 14 of galore thefts, according to an affidavit of probable cause. The reporting party, a head astatine a section restaurant, told officers she was looking into an rumor reported by a customer recovered that Wolff, a erstwhile employee, had altered customers’ in installments paper tips to return much money than was given.

At nan clip of her reporting, nan head told officers she had gone done Wolff’s receipts betwixt Jan. 8 and March 19 and recovered $103.86 successful thefts, nan affidavit says.

The head said that Wollf’s customers were penning a extremity connected nan restaurant’s receipt but Wolff was reporting a different extremity total. She discovered nan thefts erstwhile a customer called to opportunity that she had not near a extremity but was charged an magnitude greater than nan magnitude listed connected her receipt.

As portion of their investigation, officers examined receipts themselves. According to nan affidavit, officers recovered 29 abstracted transactions completed by Wolff for amounts greater than what was written by nan customers.

Wolff, who was fired from nan edifice erstwhile nan thefts were discovered, was arrested and taken to Bannock County Jail, wherever she was booked and is being held connected a $10,000 bond.

Though Wolff has been charged pinch these crimes, it does not needfully mean she committed them. Everyone is presumed guiltless until they are proven guilty.

If she is recovered guilty, Wolff would look up to 551 years successful prison.