WALLINGFORD — An East Granby man and a juvenile have been arrested in connection with a scheme to cash fraudulent checks from a business totaling tens of thousands of dollars, police say.
Officers received a complaint in March that someone had stolen and forged a local business’s checks that were taken from the mail for the amounts of $21,775 and $12,604.50, the Wallingford Police Department said in a release.
After an investigation that involved multiple search warrants, police said, a juvenile was identified as one of the suspects in the fraud scheme. Investigators found that 23-year-old Christopher Collins had contacted the juvenile to deposit the checks for him at different bank locations and would pay him $5,000, police said.
Police said investigators tracked the movement of money through various accounts and financial technology companies, ultimately leading to the arrest of both…
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