Four local bank tellers and an alleged accomplice were arrested and charged with stealing customers’ personal data and using it to remove money from their bank accounts, authorities said Tuesday. Gus Rosendale reports.
Four local bank tellers and an alleged accomplice were arrested and charged with stealing customers' personal information and using it to remove money from their bank accounts, authorities said Tuesday.
Over four years, the defendants allegedly stole more than $850,000 from unsuspecting customers at branches of Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, TD Bank and Wachovia in Westchester and Orange counties and the Bronx, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.
The tellers allegedly stole Social Security and account numbers from hundreds of customers and used that information to create fake IDs and documents that they used to withdraw money from their accounts at branches in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, Schneiderman said.
All five defendants were charged with grand larceny, identity theft and fraud charges. More charges are expected to brought against the suspects and other alleged members of the identity theft ring, Schneiderman said.
Among the New York bank branches whose customers were victims of identity theft are:
• JP Morgan Chase: 5 West Burnside Avenue, Bronx, NY
• HSBC: 1 East Fordham Road, Bronx, NY
• Bank of America: 50 West Fordham Road, Bronx, NY
• Bank of America: 206 Main Street, White Plains, NY
• JP Morgan Chase: 235 Main Street, White Plains, NY
• JP Morgan Chase: 410 South Broadway, Yonkers, NY
• Bank of America: 479 North Broadway, Jericho, NY
• Wachovia (now Wells Fargo): 43 North Plank Road, Newburgh, NY
The bank tellers arrested and arraigned worked at the following branches:
• Bank of America branch at 206 Main Street in White Plains.
• JP Morgan Chase branch, at 235 Main Street, White Plains.
• Wachovia branch (now a Wells Fargo bank branch), at 43 N. Plank Road, in Newburgh.
