UTICA, NY – Utica Police, in conjunction with the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at the residence of a suspect in an armed robbery in Bridgewater this week.
While executing the search warrant police found several fraudulent checks, blank check paper, and a printer were located within the residence.
“Based on finding this evidence, which was outside the scope of the original search warrant, a financial crimes investigator with the Utica Police Department applied for an additional search warrant to obtain items relative to these newly discovered crimes,” police said today. “During the execution of that warrant, the checks were found to have been purported to originate from a local Credit Union with a local automotive business as the owner of the account.”
Upon speaking with both the Credit Union and the business it was definitively established that the checks located were not authentic. Additionally, it was learned that that checks had been designated to various different individuals in amounts exceeding $7.500.
Following the conclusion of the investigation and both search warrants, Hamadi Muya age 22 of Utica was arrested and charged.