1.6.2015 -A former Camptonville, Calif postal worker is charged with embezzling more than $9,500 through a money order scheme.

A complaint was filed Monday in Yuba County Superior Court charging Trisha Hider-Floyd, 35, with a single felony count. A warrant was issued for her arrest.

According to court documents, Hider-Floyd allegedly issued money orders from her cash drawer to herself, to her relatives and to pay bills from Dec. 11, 2012, through July 8, 2013. Although the money orders were cashed, they were never sold.

Twenty-three money orders were written for amounts ranging from $12.50 to $1,000, according to the court filing.

A criminal investigator for the Postal Service Office of Inspector General contacted Hider-Floyd in July 2013 regarding missing and unreported money orders and other discrepancies at the Camptonville Post Office, according to an affidavit filed by the investigator.

Hider-Floyd told the investigator she did not pay for the money orders and said she was only borrowing the money and intended to pay it back, according to the affidavit.

She also “admitted she sold money orders to customers, gave the money order(s) to the customers and did not record the sale but rather converted the funds into money orders for herself, or simply kept the funds,” according to the affidavit.

Hider-Floyd was fired soon after.