A former employee of a State College property management company is facing felony charges for allegedly stealing $5,127 in payments made by tenants for parking passes.
Stacy L. Allen, 53, of Spring Township, is accused of creating fraudulent parking passes and retaining payments intended for Continental Real Estate Management in 2023 and 2024.
Allen directed several tenants to make payments for the passes to her personal Venmo account, according to an affidavit of probable cause filed by State College police on Friday.
Continental staff became suspicious after Allen had been terminated for unrelated reasons and a tenant inquired about when she should make her next parking payment, even though the company requires full payment up front for passes.
Two other tenants who reported they made payments of $550 and $920 to Allen’s Venmo account and another who paid $1,000 in cash were issued parking passes that were not tracked or inventoried, according to the affidavit. Police obtained a search warrant for Allen’s Venmo account and allegedly discovered payments from three additional tenants ranging from $237 to $950 intended for parking passes.
When questioned by police, Allen admitted to receiving payments from residents for parking passes through her Venmo and said that she forwarded partial amounts on to Continental, according to the affidavit. She said she didn’t remember the cash payment but that she “probably did take it,” police wrote.
Allen was charged on Friday with felony counts of forgery, criminal solicitation and receiving stolen property. She was arraigned by District Judge Don Hahn, who set unsecured bail at $55,000.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Jan. 15.
