Coral Springs bank teller steals over $10,000 from cash drawer, police say
A teller at a Coral Springs location of Fifth Third Bank is accused of stealing over $10,000 in a series of thefts.
Lincoln Lettman, 33, of Tamarac, told investigators with the Coral Springs Police Department that he fell on hard times before he got a job at the bank at 2525 University Drive, and he owed people money, according to a probable cause affidavit.
He’s charged with grand theft over $10,000 but under $20,000. His attorney information wasn’t available in Broward court records March 2.
The Fifth Third Bank Investigations department said it discovered Lettman stole money on six occasions from December 2025 to January 2026, starting by taking one dollar and ramping up the amount, documents show.
Lettman was seen on surveillance footage processing a customer deposit that the customer mistakenly wrote was $55,898, according to detectives. Lettman counted out an extra $1,000 in the deposit that wasn’t written on the slip, but he didn’t give it back to the customer or include it in the deposit, police said.
He was then seen slipping something into his front pants pocket and balancing the teller cash drawer, which reflected an overage of only $10, police said. The $1,000 wasn’t accounted for.
On another occasion, Lettman is accused of stealing about $265 by removing bills from a cash drawer and placing them next to his keyboard. Then he was seen putting a piece of paper over his keys and the money to hide it from view, and he picked up the stack, police said.
On Jan. 26, Lettman processed a large cash deposit and verified the amount, before he later picked up two straps of bills that he had created and adjusted, and put them in his pocket, according to detectives. The two straps of bills were worth $9,350, but he balanced the drawer to show no discrepancy, the bank said.
Four days later, detectives with the Coral Springs Police Department were called to the bank, where Lettman told them he took about $4,000 total on four occasions when customer deposits had an overage, according to the affidavit.
Investigators said they learned the amount was higher than that. Lettman went on to say he was out of a job before being hired at the bank, and he used the money to pay back three people he owed money to rather than deposit the funds into his account.
“Lincoln Lettman is not a current employee of Fifth Third,” the company said in a statement emailed to the Coral Springs News on March 2. “Fifth Third expects its employees to uphold its high ethical standards and takes any allegation of employee misconduct seriously. We want to reassure our customers and the community that no customers experienced any losses because of this incident.”
“The safety, security and confidence of our customers remain our highest priority,” the statement continued. “We will continue to support law enforcement throughout this process.”
Lettman was arrested Feb. 24 and bonded out two days later, records show.
This story was originally published March 2, 2026 at 12:44 PM.