Thread: NY-Judge puts 'Harrison 10' nabbed in check scam on ICE

Judge puts 'Harrison 10' nabbed in check scam on ICE
By Rebecca Baker
The Journal News • August 4, 2008


WHITE PLAINS - Ten alleged illegal immigrants from Mexico pleaded not guilty today to charges that they ran a counterfeit check-cashing ring in Harrison last month that netted $18,000 in phony pay.

The suspects, nicknamed "the Harrison 10," are accused of posing as employees of a local landscaping company and cashing bogus checks at Community Mutual Savings Bank.


Acting State Supreme Court Justice Robert Neary denied bail to the attorneys who asked for it and remanded the defendants to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The July 17 arrests by investigators from the Westchester County District Attorney's Office, local police and federal agents came after a group of men was seen entering a red van with Michigan license plates near 76 Waller Ave., White Plains.

Authorities followed as the van traveled to the Taylor Square bank. The van parked near the bank and was used as a staging point for the men as they entered and exited it, two or three at a time, changing clothes between bank transactions, prosecutors say.

Inside the bank, the men approached different tellers and presented them with payroll checks from the Westchester Hills Landscaping Co. The tellers cashed about 29 checks totaling $18,458, but the names on the checks were not company workers.

The suspects each face felony charges of third-degree grand larceny and criminal possession of a forged instrument, and a misdemeanor charge of conspiracy. They face a maximum of seven years in prison on the larceny charge.

All 10 suspects are scheduled to appear before Westchester County Judge James Hubert on Friday.

Charges against an 11th man were withdrawn in local court, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Read more about this story tomorrow in The Journal News and on LoHud.com.


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10 men @ $18,000 for less than hours worth of stealing equals a tax free income of 1.8 thousand each.

ICE - ARE YOU WORKING 24 HOUR DAYS

ICE is probably undermanned and underfunded just like the border patrol. Only 10 illegals? There are probably a few hundred more that will pull that scam in Harrison banks, and perhaps millions across the country doing the same thing. And then with all the scams run over the Internet, (and the Chinese and others stealing copyrighted material with no compensation to the companies) we are getting robbed blind.

This is what happens when banks do business with illegal aliens. Keep catering to them.

How many different forms of idenification did each one have? I have to show mine when I cash a check.

Why not add identity theft to the charges.