CASPER, Wyo. — Three New York residents are jailed and facing charges in Natrona County alleging they came to Wyoming specifically to withdraw cash from banks with fraudulent IDs.
Police say the conduct with consistent with known organized bank fraud schemes operating in the northeast region of the U.S, where indebted drug users are sent to across the country with stolen or fraudulent identifications.
“For some reason, they chose Wyoming,” Assistant District Attorney Patrick LeBrun said at one of the hearings.
The case began on Friday, April 3, when Casper Police Department Sergeant Andrea Husted responded to a report of an active fraud attempt at ANB Bank downtown and arrested one woman on foot as the alleged getaway vehicle took off, according to the report.
Bank staff had called police because they suspected the woman had been the…
Review your monthly bank statements and credit card bills line-by-line to spot small “tester” transactions of R5 or R10, which fraudsters use to verify if a stolen card is still active.