Tanika Victoria Little, Theft, Pennsylvania 2023

A Philadelphia woman has been convicted of stealing $110,000 from her employer, Brink’s, Inc., a national armored truck company.

Tanika Victoria Little, 36, was found guilty of two counts of bank theft and one count of possession of a firearm with an obliterated, altered or removed serial number, according to a federal jury verdict returned last night.

The theft occurred on February 15, 2011, and March 1, 2011, when Little came into possession of incorrectly routed bags of cash totaling approximately $110,000 in $20 denominations.

Little, whose annual income from Brink’s was approximately $41,000 at the time, failed to deliver the bags of cash to Bank of America’s Drexel Hill branch and began making deposits into her personal bank accounts.

Between March 2, 2011, and June 1, 2011, Little deposited approximately $41,840 in cash in $20 denominations into three different bank accounts.

On June 29, 2011, within an eight-hour period of time, Little purchased 27 money orders, totaling approximately $13,000, with cash from eight different retail establishments in South Philadelphia, PA.

Additionally, in 2011, Little reported that she had paid approximately $25,000 for exterior and interior home improvements in cash, including $2,000 for a remodeled bathroom, $4,300 for a remodeled kitchen, $8,500 for a remodeled basement, and $9,000 for rebricking of her home’s exterior.

Little faces an advisory sentencing guideline range of 30 to 37 months in prison, a fine of up to $2.1 million, a $300 special assessment, and up to five years of supervised release.

The case was investigated by United States Secret Service and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations. It is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Anita Eve.

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