A woman stole $30,000 from her dad, deputies said, and then wrote him an email detailing the crime.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrested Megan Zalasin, 25, on Friday.

Deputies said Zalasin made unauthorized withdrawals between April and June 2014 from her father's business account using an ATM card she was supposed to give back to him. Zalasin once worked for her father's business in California, according to the arrest report, but quit when she moved to Florida in 2014.

She also used the card to make purchases, deputies said.

Her father contacted the Sheriff's Office in November to file a criminal complaint.

The man said he was alerted to the theft after he got a text message from Bank of America about strange activity on his account. His daughter had made $24,000 worth of unauthorized withdrawals, wrote a $2,500 check to herself from the account and purchased various items using the card, according to the arrest report.

In total, she is accused of stealing about $31,700 from her dad.

He called her and asked her about the bank card, her father told deputies, but she said she sent it back to him after moving to Florida.

A month later, she sent him an email titled "The Hardest Thing To Do," according to the report.

In it, she explained she was taking out the money to cover her expenses and giving some of it to a friend of hers who said he needed financial help. She also pleaded with her father not to press criminal charges.

"I know I need to be punished and that my actions have consequences," she wrote, according to the report. "I just hope you can find it in your heart to think about this, you literally hold my life in your hands Dad."

The man told deputies his daughter said she had given the ATM card to a friend who took out cash as well.

When interviewed by deputies in September, Zalasin told them her mother suggested she write the email.

Zalasin is charged with grand theft and was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Saturday.

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