Cheektowaga woman gets 3 years probation for selling counterfeit covid-19 cards
Bethesda, MD, USA 03-22-2021: a COVID 19 vaccination record card on a wooden desk. The card details the date, type and the dose number of administred vaccine and given to every person for record.

Cheektowaga Woman Gets 3 Years Probation for Selling Counterfeit COVID-19 Cards

August 26, 2022
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by John Flynn, Erie County D.A.

CHEEKTOWAGA, NY – Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 24-year-old Kaiyah S. Heinrich of the Town of Cheektowaga was sentenced this morning before Cheektowaga Town Court Justice James J. Speyer, Jr. to 3 years of probation.

An investigation began after the New York State Department of Health received information that the defendant was selling fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards through her Facebook account. On, March 10, 2022, defendant of knowingly and intentionally sold two falsified COVID-19 vaccination cards to an undercover investigator on Thruway Plaza Drive in the Town of Cheektowaga.

Heinrich pleaded guilty to two counts of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Third Degree (Class “A” misdemeanors) on May 17, 2022.

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