Let me understand this...this "friend" stole money from you, took it out of the bank, and you are worried about how her getting in trouble might affect your "friendship"? Are you really that innocent and naive?

Let me guess, you are a Filipina, right? One of my biggest jokes since I have been here, being friends with Filipinos is how nobody can do anything wrong to you, how everythign is forgivable, how you are SO hesitant to get any other Filipinos in trouble, always willing to lend money to other Filipinos, no matter how many times they have screwed you in the past.

Sorry, but people (and life) aren't so forgiving. After you lose all your money to people like this, maybe you will learn someday. I have been with my Filipina GF now for two years, and only now does she realize all the nonsense she has put up with and dealt with in her life, and why, after working overseas for so many years, has almost no money in her savings.

"Oh, my friend needs to buy a cell-phone and has no money, I have to lend her..." on and on and on.

Just forget about it, let her go to jail, maybe she will learn a lesson. YOU are not responsible for HER actions, nor are you responsible for her punishment! Even if you dropped the charges, the bank will still charge her for stealing. But explain how your job would be endangered?