New Canaan Police on Feb. 10 arrested a 36-year-old Bronx, N.Y. woman in connection with the theft and illegal cashing of checks from a local woman more than one decade ago, court documents show. Authorities became aware of the theft in August 2015, when the daughter of an elderly local woman—88 years old at the time—came to police headquarters saying that several personal checks had been stolen and cashed, according to an arrest warrant application filed by Officer Brian Micena and signed by a state Superior Court judge. The mother “needed extensive home care for several years and relied on the same person to manage that care,” Micena said in his police affidavit, though that summer the family had taken a vacation where additional coverage was needed on two weekends.
The daughter showed police “two suspicious” Oppenheimer Bank checks totaling $3,500, and found that a total of $8,000 had gone missing from a Bank of America checking account, as well, the arrest warrant application said. In all, about 25 checks had gone missing, and the daughter was able to show police several processed checks made out to unknown people.
