Philly man utilizes Drexel Hill bank to deposit $255K stolen check
A man living in a halfway house in Philadelphia altered checks and deposited them in a Drexel Hill bank, according to police in Connecticut. Those same police traveled down to the city last week to take him into custody after unveiling a massive check-cashing business which included 103 ATM transactions, said reports.
According to reports from the CT Insider, Bernard Segers, 37, of Philadelphia, is facing charges of larceny and forgery in North Haven, Conn. after police said he stole $255,000 from a Connecticut-based business. The owner of O.F. Mossberg & Sons, a gunmaker in the “Constitution State,” had issued a check in September of 2024 in the amount of $255,840.11, he said, to United Health Care in Illinois.
Police said that Segers altered the check, reissuing it to an “Ocean Auto Sales LLC” in Philadelphia, instead depositing it into a Drexel Hill-based bank on Oct. 3. Records from the Upper Darby Township bank showed 103 ATM transactions totalling $77,000 and 51 transactions at a check-cashing business, which ranged from $2,700 to $18,000, totalling a sum of $131,000, said the warrant for arrest.
Both facial-recognition software at the bank, as well as transfers to an account owned by Segers, were utilized to make the identification, said reports. For the full story, visit https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/north-haven-check-fraud-charges-brandon-segers-21170583.php.
