Rebecca and Steve Warden, No Criminal Masterminds, Run Long Scam on Bank

• Had the Wardens’ rolled like this, they would at least gotten a book deal out of it.

Sometimes a scheme can be so incredibly simpleminded — so blatantly obvious it could have been cooked-up over rounds of juice boxes on a chalkboard by a gang of precocious third graders — that it works beautifully. For four years. To the tune of almost $1 million.

Meet Brunswick husband and wife Rebecca and Steve Warden, a Bonnie and Clyde for the timid suburban set. No criminal masterminds here. No dramatic getaways. No future film adaptations.

Mrs. Warden was a bank teller at the Strongsville National City branch. Between 2006 and spring of 2010, husband Steve would mosey on into the bank, ostensibly to conduct run-of-the-mill transactions. In actuality, Rebecca was dishing hubs cash from the drawer on the sly, according to Channel 5.

This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2011.