Debra Kay Dorr, also known as Debra Kay Geike, 57, of Austin pleaded not guilty on Thursday in Mower County District Court to felony attempted theft by swindle.

According to the court complaint, police were dispatched on Sept. 5 to First Farmers Merchant Bank on North Main Street in Austin in response to a fraud report. They met with an employee who reported that Dorr was inside the bank and was trying to claim Fraud on unauthorized withdrawals from her account made in late August and early September.

The employee said he had received security footage from Ankeny’s No. 1 that showed a male, later identified as Woodruff Nathaniel Easley, making the disputed $200 ATM withdrawal that Dorr was claiming to be fraudulent, the complaint said. The employee told police Easley had used Dorr’s ATM card and that Dorr used the same card later. He said that Dorr and Easley were known and that Dorr had previously signed a $1,000 cashiers check over to Easley.

Police then spoke to another employee, who said Dorr had called the bank’s data center and made a fraud report, the complaint states. She was contacted by the data center and advised that Dorr was coming to the bank to address the issue of two $200 ATM withdrawals that she claimed were fraudulent, one from a Shell gas station and the other from Ankeny’s No. 1. The employee also said Dorr claimed she never wrote a $1,000 check to Easley, despite it being signed and cashed at the bank. When staff confronted Dorr about the facts surrounding the check, she retracted her claim of fraud.

The employee then told police Dorr had claimed $1,158.96 in fraudulent charges, consisting of four ATM withdrawals made at Ankeny’s, Shell and Walmart, the complaint said. She said Dorr had been issued a new ATM card two weeks earlier, but denied giving her PIN to anyone else. Dorr told the employee that it might “have been the guy living in my house,” then attempted to retract all allegations of fraud.

An officer interviewed Dorr, who initially denied any knowledge of the allegedly fraudulent transactions, the complaint said. She then said she was in a relationship with Easley that had ended about a week earlier and that she had filed the fraud claim to recover her losses because Easley had made the transactions she did not want him to get in trouble.

A pre-trial for Dorr has been scheduled for Feb. 15, with a jury trial scheduled for Feb. 25.