A former employee of the $2.9 billion Travis Credit Union, anembezzlement suspect, is also an FBI suspect for robbing a creditunion and three other banks about a month after he quit his job atthe Vacaville-Calif.-based TCU.

The FBI arrested Corey Johnson, 31, of Vacaville Wednesday. Hewas advised of the pending charge of bank robbery against him inU.S. District Court in Sacramento Thursday.

Before he allegedly committed the bank robberies, however,Johnson also is suspected of embezzling more than $36,000 frommember accounts by using ATM cards, according to a criminalcomplaint.

In a sworn affidavit of Michael Miller, a task force officerwith the FBI’s Sacramento division, Johnson is suspected of robbingthe branch of the $147 million Solano First Federal Credit Union inside aRaley’s grocery store in Fairfield on December 28. After passing toa teller a handwritten note claiming he had a gun and demandedmoney, the teller handed over more than $3,000. During thisrobbery, he wore a black and gray Oakland Raider’s baseball cap, ablack hooded sweater, a white T-shirt, blue jeans and black andwhite Converse shoes.

Johnson also wore the same clothes when he allegedly robbed a USBank branch inside a Safeway grocery store in Lincoln on Jan. 2 anda US Bank branch inside a Safeway grocery store on Jan. 6. Two dayslater, he allegedly robbed another US Bank branch inside a Safewaygrocery store in Fairfield. While he was wearing the same baseballcap, this time he wore a blue and yellow Golden State Warriorssweater and gray pants, according to the affidavit.

The three bank robberies only netted Johnson $3,576.

Miller, who also works as a detective for the Vacaville PoliceDepartment, began investigating Johnson in December when a TCUinternal security officer, Sergio Gutierrez, and KeriMahaffey-Gignoux, a TCU compliance specialist, reported fraud andembezzlement incidents.

In early December, three members reported fraudulenttransactions on their accounts that happened at ATMs at two TCUbranches in Vacaville.

Video footage that corresponded with the dates and times of whenthe fraudulent transactions occurred showed that the accounts wereaccessed by Johnson, a financial services representative, whoworked at the credit union for three years.

He allegedly created ATM cards to access the member accounts andthen stole the funds from ATMs at two branches, Miller said in hisaffidavit. Johnson took cash advances from a credit card belongingto the accounts, and he also siphoned cash from savings or checkingaccounts. This occurred over a span of about 16 transactions fromSeptember to December, Miller said.

One of the member victims identified Johnson from a surveillancephoto that showed him withdrawing funds from the member’s accountwithout authorization.

On January 8, Gutierrez, the TCU security officer, identifiedJohnson from surveillance photos as the suspect in three of thefour bank robberies.

Johnson, who left his TCU job on Nov. 28, was not fired, Millersaid.

Embezzlement charges have not been filed against Johnson infederal court.