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An arrest warrant for 54-year-old Donna Hurley of New York City on charges related to bank forgery was served on Wednesday, Feb. 8 by a Darien police officer at Stamford Superior Court, according to Sergeant Dan Skoumbros.
The fraudulent activity leading up to Hurley's arrest began in October 2022, when Hurley allegedly opened a business account at the First Country Bank located at 1006 Post Rd. on Tuesday, Oct. 18 with a company name that had a Darien address listed.
Hurley then came back the next day to deposit a check into the account worth $558,994.70. It was at this point that the bank became suspicious and noticed discrepancies in some of Hurley's paperwork, Skoumbros said. The bank's manager was also told that Hurley looked similar to a woman who had been involved in a similar incident at another branch.
On Thursday, Oct. 20, Darien Police officers responded to the bank and began investigating the fraudulent business account. Around this time, an investigator from the Stamford Police Department who was also investigating a forgery case contacted Darien detectives looking into the incident and told them that they believed the same woman was involved in both cases.
Eventually, a Darien detective determined that Hurley, who had a history of bank forgery, was the woman involved. After further investigation, it was also found that Hurley had stolen the check she deposited into the account from a company out of Michigan.
The arrest warrant for Hurley was then issued with a court-set bond of $250,000.
Hurley is charged with the following:
- First-degree larceny;
- First-degree conspiracy to larceny;
- Second-degree money laundering;
- First-degree identity theft;
- Criminal impersonation.
She was arraigned in Stamford Court on Wednesday, Feb. 8.
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