Woman Charged With Fraud in Southington

SOUTHINGTON, CT — Southington police on Friday made an arrest in a 21-month-old fraud case involving a woman allegedly stealing from a relative's bank accounts.

At about 2 a.m. on Friday, officers were dispatched to the Waterbury Police Department to take custody of Christina Granniss, 41, of Waterbury, for whom police had an active arrest warrant out of Southington, according to a report.

The warrant was from a fraud investigation initiated in July 2015, police said.

Granniss was charged with two counts of second-degree forgery, two counts of third-degree larceny, one count of credit card theft, and one count of the illegal use of a credit card, police said.

Granniss was held on a $1,500 cash/surety bond and was to appear in court in Friday, police said.

The arrest warrant alleges that, from June 9 to July 18, 2015, Granniss made fraudulent ATM transactions, forged checks and made withdrawals from two bank accounts, police said.

The total amount of the fraudulent ATM charges/withdrawals, forged checks and bank withdrawals
allegedly made by Granniss from two accounts totaled $7,869 police said.

The victim is a family member of the Granniss and she did not have permission to access the accounts, police said.

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