By Liz McBreen
Having downloaded Nassau County Health Department letterhead from the website, police say McCall copied it onto an order form. He then ordered $6,000 worth of equipment and charged it to the Nassau County. McCall did not know how he was going to use the equipment. "He told us he was not sure if he was going to make security identification cards and sell them, or sell the equipment to someone else who would make the cards," said Detective Lieutenant Ron Mueller of the Crimes Against Property Squad.
The various pieces of hardware and software that is necessary to carry out the forgeries was ordered form a company in Virginia. Mueller explained that "the Health Department of Nassau County often orders from this company, however, an employee at ActCom Security Solutions questioned the appearance of the order form and called the Health Department to verify the order. Something just didn't look right. "
The address and phone number had been whited out on the form, and an abandoned Baldwin office and McCall's cell phone number had been typed in their stead.
Police say that the suspect would have gotten away with the crime if the security company employee had not questioned the form and called to verify it.
When the phone call was made, McCall was still waiting to receive the camera he needed to produce the fake identification cards. Police arranged to have him pick up an empty box, supposedly holding the camera, at the UPS headquarters in Uniondale. As soon as he showed his New Jersey license, claiming he was Carman, McCall was arrested.
He was arraigned on April 2 at First District Court in Hempstead, and was charged with third-degree larceny, second-degree forgery, fourth-degree attempted grand larceny and possession of a forged instrument. He was then held in Nassau County jail on $75,000 bond or $32,500 bail. If McCall is convicted of these charges, he could serve up to seven years in prison for each count of forgery and larceny.
