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Fairfield Police were first alerted to the scam after a resident reported that one of her personal checks for $750 had been stolen from her mailbox and later cashed at a Citibank for $15,720 payable to Dayana Castillo, of the Bronx, said Fairfield Police Lt. Antonio Granata.
With the assistance of Citibank, Fairfield detectives discovered the check was altered and cashed in September via an ATM machine.
Detectives found several other fraudulent deposits into the same account held by Castillo. In the month of September alone, over $30,000 was deposited via suspicious check transactions into Castillo’s bank account from various ATM locations in New York, Granata said.
Fairfield detectives interviewed Castillo, who admitted she allowed her account to be utilized for forged check transactions by an individual she refused to name.
Castillo allowed her account to be utilized for this criminal activity, for monetary gain, being promised $1,000-$2,000 per fraudulent transaction, he added.
She was arrested on Tuesday, Jan. 19, and charged with larceny and forgery, and later released on a written promise to appear.
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