Two women jailed for employee theft

Two Century women are facing felony theft charges after an investigation prompted by their employer revealed the two employees had been creating accounts with fictitious names in order to apply customer reward points to take possession of products or take possession of currency equal to the amount of assigned points.

Teresa Lachelle Burt, 41, 60 W. Pond Street, and Latoya Trenise Washington, 31, 50 Zion Street, were each arrested and charged with two counts felony theft when investigators utilizing activity reports from Fusion Liquors, Inc. in Century discovered accounts created using fictitio...