Fraud scheme included access to 100+ credit union members’ accounts, Fresno police say
Fresno police said Friday they arrested a man who forged more than 150 checks for fraud crimes totaling more than $250,000.
Credit unions reported multiple fraudulent checks being deposited at ATMs in January by a man who was careful to conceal his identity, police said in a news release.
He gained access to the accounts of more than 100 credit union members, police said.
Investigators used search warrants, financial records and other investigations to identify a 40-year-old Fresno man, who was arrested on suspicion of check fraud, identity theft and theft by false pretenses, police said Friday.
Police said they collected evidence through surveillance video on Feb. 22 using a search warrant at one of the man’s apartments.
The next day investigators witnessed the man walking through The Row apartments at Willow and Shepherd avenues before they arrested him without incident, police said.
Police said they used another search warrant at that complex to find numerous identification cards, social security cards, completed checks, boxes of various blank check stock, computers, printing equipment and other electronics they say were used for fraud.
The man has since posted bail and was released from the Fresno County Jail, police said.
