A MAN has been arrested after he was found allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from a bank account.
On Monday around 1:00 pm, C&N Bank in Old Lycoming Township, Pennsylvania, reported a fraud incident at multiple branch locations, reports the Lycoming Regional Police Department.
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Authorities said they learned that a man, later identified as Jose Rodriguez, made multiple fraudulent withdrawals from a customer’s bank account on December 15 and 16.
Officers stated that Rodriguez used a fraudulent United States passport photo ID card with the victim’s name to access their account.
The South Williamsport Borough Police said they were dispatched to Woodlands Bank for a suspicious male attempting to withdraw with a suspected fraudulent ID card.
Rodriguez was arraigned on various felony theft-related charges and remains in the Lycoming County Prison.
And this is not an isolated incident, as customers in other parts of Pennsylvania are experiencing unrecognized charges and withdrawals from their accounts.
In another instance, a man from Fairview Township accidentally received a stranger’s tax refund and is now facing theft charges after allegedly failing to turn the unexpected windfall, reports the US Sun.
The victim was owed more than $11,000 as a tax refund, but the numbers were believed to be entered wrong when she and her mother did taxes in March 2022.
The woman contacted her bank, which later found the exact amount of money she was missing in another account with one number off.
The receiver, identified by police as Johnnie V. Lassiter, 59, per York Dispatch, said he only learned of the mixup when he discovered that his account had been frozen.
Lassiter claims he was waiting for money from a settlement from his employer while on disability and assumed the money that appeared in his account was valid.
He used the money to pay bills for rent and car payments.
Pennslyvania law describes theft of property lost by mistake as: “A person who comes into control of property of another that he knows to have been lost, mislaid, or delivered under a mistake.”
Identity theft is increasing rapidly, so much so that the market for identity theft protection services is expected to reach $28 billion by 2029, reports IdentityTheft.org.
Of the 5.7 million cases reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this year, 1.4 million were specific to identity theft.
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