(Breaking news) Former bank worker charged in 2004 holdup

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

A former employee at a Leonardtown bank was jailed Tuesday night on charges of acting as an accessory before and afterward in a 2004 holdup at the business.

Martha R. Thompson, 25, of Lexington Park told St. Mary's detectives that she received money, charging papers allege, from the robbery at the branch of the Cedar Point Federal Credit Union branch off Point Lookout Road.

Thompson was "the inside source of information" to Cornelius Chase and his nephew, Derrick Green, about the bank's operations, employees, layout and its currency on hand, detective David Alexander wrote in a statement of probable cause. A prosecutor said this week in court that $260,000 was taken from the bank.

Chase, 48, of Mechanicsville is scheduled to go on trial later this month. Green, 27, of Lexington Park was arrested last month, and his preliminary hearing also is set for later this month.

A judge ordered Wednesday that Thompson remain jailed in lieu of $100,000 bond.

jwharton@somdnews.com