DEPUTIES ARREST FIVE IN BAD-CHECK SCAM.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer More than $30,000 worth of televisions, computers, cameras, furniture and other merchandise was recovered in the breakup of what detectives described as a scheme to defraud To make a Misrepresentation of an existing material fact, knowing it to be false or making it recklessly without regard to whether it is true or false, intending for someone to rely on the misrepresentation and under circumstances in which such person does rely on it to his or businesses using bad checks. Deputies said the suspects wrote checks to make purchases at local businesses and then attempted to close the accounts before the checks cleared. ``We've requested information from other agencies to find out if they have any of these similar crimes and we also notified other branches of the major stores,'' Detective Mark Machanic said Sunday. Arrested were Levente Szabo, 23; Gizela Harkaly, 21; Guyla Padi, 40; Dora Viola, 22; and John Leonard John Leonard may refer to:
n. Chiefly British An island in a river. [Middle English, from Old Norse h , who all lived together in a house in the 37300 block of Sandbrook Drive in Palmdale. They were booked on suspicion of burglary, grand theft and conspiracy to commit grand theft, officials said. Szabo, Harkaly, Padi and Viola are from Budapest, Hungary, and have Hungarian passports, although they have been in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. several years, and Holm is from Sweden, officials said. Szabo and Padi were arrested Friday at the Home Savings branch on Palmdale Boulevard after employees there called deputies. Harkaly and Viola were arrested sitting in a U-Haul van parked a mile up the street - ironically, in the parking lot of the business center that contains the Palmdale sheriff's station. The van contained $10,000 to $12,000 worth of merchandise, Machanic said. The rest of the property was found in the Sandbrook Drive house. Evidence linked the five suspects to numerous fraudulent transactions at stores including Costco, Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Wal-Mart and Kmart in Lancaster, Palmdale and Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, , officials said. The suspects were being held at the Lancaster sheriff's station in lieu of $100,000 bail each. |
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