Public Bulletins

Incident: Bank Fraud; Monetary Instrument Abuse; Felony Theft-$10,737.20

07/05/2006
Investigator: Det. Cpl. Steven Kemp

On June 30, 2006, Det. Steven Kemp, arrested Cliff Adam Guerra, an independant accountant for Bank Fraud; Monetary Instrument Abuse; Felony Theft in the amount of $10,737.20. Guerra open an account at a local financial institution, depositing a check drawn from another financial institution in New York, from a business account of an LLC in the amount of $230,375.00. The local financial institution verified that the check was "good" and Guerra had made several purchases from the account totaling $10,737.20, before the check was discovered to have been altered or modified from it's original form. The original signer of the check was contacted and stated the check had been stolen from the mail. The financial institution took a loss of $10,737.20 plus fees. total loss, $12,162.85. Guerra was booked on the above charges.

Det Kemp was assisted by Det Robinson.