Crime & Safety
Yorktown Bank Teller Sees Familiar Face Using Different Name: Police
Now a 35-year-old faces five felony charges.
YORKTOWN, NY — An alert bank teller led to the arrest of a 35-year-old man in Yorktown Wednesday.
The teller had a customer Wednesday attempting to cash a check using a Connecticut drivers license. The teller recognized the man from a transaction on Saturday — but he had been using a different name.
Yorktown police were called to the bank.
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After investigation, they arrested Franceley Millian of the Bronx. They said he was trying to get money out of someone's account using a fraudulent ID and that he had succeeded in getting $8,000 out of another account on the 5th using another fraudulent ID.
After arraignment, he was sent to the Westchester County jail. He is due back in Yorktown town court Aug. 15 to answer charges of grand larceny, forgery, attempted grand larceny, identity theft and possession of a forged instrument, all felonies; and misdemeanor criminal impersonation.
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