Police: Queens Man Stayed at Hotel for Months Using Bogus Credit Cards

A Queens man was arrested Thursday after police say he used fraudulent credit cards to pay for a room at a Westbury hotel for the past four months.

According to detectives, an investigation revealed that Andrew Henry, 38, on numerous occasions, presented the credit cards for payment at the Hilton Garden Inn in Westbury, where he had been staying since April. Eventually the cards came back denying payment, causing the hotel to sustain a loss of $18,000, police said.

Henry, of Bayside, also rented a room at the LaQuinta Inn in East Garden City, police said. A consent search of that room revealed that Henry was in possession numerous fraudulent IDs, official documents, including counterfeit driver licenses and fraudulent credit cards, police said. Also in the room were materials and apparatus used in the production of counterfeiting and forging documents and IDs, police said.

Henry was arrested and charged with third degree grand larceny, possession of a forgery device and five counts of second degree possession of a forged instrument. He will be arraigned in First District Court in Hempstead on Friday.

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