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Yonkers resident Rahul Masih has been sentenced after pleading guilty in October last year to attempted criminal possession of a forged instrument, a felony.
Last week, Masih was sentenced in Westchester County Court to five years probation after paying $2,580 in restitution to Atlantic Appliance in Yorktown, where he used the credit card.
Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. said that on Aug. 3, 2018, Masih received an appliance to be delivered to a Park Avenue address in Yonkers that had been purchased with a fraudulent credit card.
Two days earlier, Scarpino said Masih received a delivery a few houses away from that address of a similar purchase with the same company. He alleged the appliance was for renovations though when employees arrived to make the second delivery, they were suspicious because they recognized Masih and the close proximity of the two locations.
According to Scarpino, the payment for the first delivery had been reversed for fraud. Masih was found to have a forged Pennsylvania driver’s license bearing his picture which was the basis for the charged crime.
Scarpino said the delivery team called the police and detained Masih until Yonkers Police officers arrived and arrested him. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 20 last year.
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