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Woman Charged With Stealing $368,000 From Hospital

St. Petersburg Police Department

Zsamiko Walters Reid, 40, was a nursing services coordinator at Bayfront Medical Center from 2000 until August.

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Published: December 22, 2008

A former employee of Bayfront Medical Center was arrested Monday night, accused of bilking the hospital out of more than $368,000 over four years, the St. Petersburg Police Department said.

Zsamiko Walters Reid, 40, of 714 61st Ave. S., St. Petersburg, has been charged with first-degree grand theft. She is being booked tonight at Pinellas County Jail.

Reid worked as a nursing services coordinator at the hospital from 2000 until 2008, a position that included payroll and scheduling responsibilities, detectives say.

She was fired in August when administrators determined she had stolen the money from the hospital
by writing out several hundred payroll checks payable to other employees but converting the funds for her own use, detectives say.

Reid is accused of creating checks using the names of 123 employees from 2002 until this year, forging the names and depositing the checks into a personal account, police say.

More than 70 of the 123 hospital employees affected by the scam have been contacted by detectives.

Anyone with information on this case can call St. Petersburg police Detective Mark Marland at (727) 893-4846.

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