Police: Convenience store employee aided robbery in Newport

NEWPORT, Vt. (WCAX) - A convenience store employee Newport police say helped get her own store robbed will be in court Monday.

Angela Birk, 40, was charged with Embezzlement, False Reports to Law Enforcement and Accessory Aiding Commission of Felony.

Police say the case dates back to last September, when Eric Shatrau, 48, allegedly stole thousands from a store while the clerk was out back taking out the garbage.

Officers say Birk was the store clerk and that she was in on the crime.

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