New Canaan Police on June 9 arrested a 42-year-old New York woman accused of impersonating a customer of New Canaan’s First County Bank.
On Dec. 9, Officer Owen Ochs was dispatched to First Country Bank for the report of a female trying to impersonate another female in an attempt to gain access to their banking account, Ochs said in an arrest warrant application obtained by NewCanaanite.com.
Prior to arriving at the bank, Ochs canvassed the area to locate the described suspect, but was unable to find her, according to the police affidavit, signed by a prosecuting attorney and a state Superior Court judge.
Ochs then talked to the bank’s manager, who stated that the suspect “went to the teller window and presented a fraudulent Florida Driver’s License with [a customer’s] name,” the affidavit said.
The teller knew the customer personally and quickly identified that the offender was not who they claimed to be, according to the application. The teller made a color copy of the driver’s license and informed the suspect that the account she was inquiring about had been closed.
Ochs contacted the victim using a telephone number provided by the bank and confirmed that she had never had a Florida Driver’s License, he said.
Later, on December 9, a Westchester County detective contacted Ochs, as they had obtained a possible match for the suspect using the license and their facial recognition system, according to the affidavit.
Ochs confirmed the match, and further research revealed that the suspect had a history of various crimes, including forgery, identity theft, impersonation, and narcotics, according to the application. The suspect also had numerous active arrest warrants in several states.
Ochs then believed that probable cause had been established to arrest the suspect on charges of third-degree Identity Theft, second-degree Forgery, and Criminal Impersonation.
On June 9, New Canaan Police went to Suffolk County Jail to extradite the offender. The suspect is being held on a $150,000 bond across multiple cases and is scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 14, according to Connecticut Judicial Branch records. Bridgeport-based attorney Sefton Brown will represent her, the records show.