A 20-year-old Bronx man turned himself in at Darien Police Headquarters on Tuesday, April 30, in response to an arrest warrant accusing him of helping to steal a check, forge a higher amount on it, and change the recipient’s name to the man who was arrested.
Photo from Darien P.D.
Amari Washington, 20, accused of working with another person or persons in stealing and forging a check.
After a Darien man told police in October that someone stole the check from a mailbox at the Noroton Heights Post Office, an investigation determined that the man whose name had been added to the check, Amari Washington, now 20, from Wheeler Avenue in the Bronx, also was the owner of the account where the check was deposited.
Police applied for and received an arrest warrant charging Washington with third-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny and third-degree forgery.
In the arrest warrant, approved in late March, the court set his bond at $30,000.
On Tuesday, April 30, Washington turned himself in to Darien police. He was released on his bond and is scheduled to appear May 8 in state Superior Court in Stamford.