Lynbrook, East Rockaway crime report

Delivery man arrested for pocketing money

The Fifth Squad reports the details of the arrest of a Queens man on Friday, Jan. 22, for a larceny that occurred in 2009.
According to detectives, defendant Jong Keun Cho 41, of Flushing, while working as a delivery man for a Lynbrook produce company between Apr. 2, 2009 and Dec. 31, 2009, collected payment for deliveries and kept the money for himself. The amount stolen from the victim was in excess of $42,000.
Cho was arrested at 10:30 a.m. at the L.I.. Banana Company, 28 William Street, Lynbrook. He was arraigned in First District Court, 99 Main Street, Hempstead on Jan. 23.

Lynbrook woman arrested in bank scheme

Crimes Against Property Squad detectives report the details of an arrest of a Lynbrook woman made on Jan. 13 at 8:40 p.m. in Westbury for grand larceny that originally occurred on Mar. 7, 2009.
 According to detectives, Samirra Smith, 19, of Forest Ave., Lynbrook, provided her account information at the Bank of America located at 300 Merrick Rd., to another subject ( who is not yet arrested), where she received a money transfer in the amount of $17,622 from a victim’s account. 

According to police, the defendant would then go to various Bank of America banks and ATM’s to withdraw the money before the fraud was discovered. A fraud scheme has been identified at the bank wherein victims’ accounts are identified and then their contact information is comprised and controlled by the subjects’ through their cell phones. Wire transfers are then made via the Internet from the victims’ accounts into accounts such as defendant Smith’s.

Smith is being charged with Grand Larceny 3rd Degree-Property and was arraigned on Jan. 14 in First District Court, Hempstead.  

    

Shoplifting at CVS

On Jan. 9, at 4 p.m., an unknown suspect removed assorted merchandise and over-the-counter medications from CVS, located at 488 Ocean Ave., in East Rockaway. On Jan. 12, at 5:50 p.m., a security camera showed an unknown suspect removing assorted consumer good from the store.