Conn. woman accused of swiping nearly $10k from Heights Fire Co. social club
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SENTINEL FILE PHOTO - The Shenandoah Heights Fire Co., seen on June 25, 2017.
SHENANDOAH HEIGHTS – A Connecticut woman is facing charges after township police say she swiped nearly $10,000 from the Heights Fire Company social club.
Jeslie Ann Sanjurjo-Lopez, 30, of New Britain, Conn., was charged last Friday by West Mahanoy Township Police Patrolman Matthew Williams with felony theft and receiving stolen property.
According to the criminal complaint, the investigation began in April when the president of the Heights Fire Co. Social Club reported that a $9,641 check had been cashed in Connecticut.
She called township police on April 24 and said the fire company social club’s accountant caught that a the check had been made out to Sanjurjo-Lopez, was dated for Sept. 28, 2024 and was cashed a few days later by mobile deposit. It was deposited into an East Hartford, Conn. bank account.
The check had been fraudulently endorsed by two members of the social club.
Police spoke to Sanjurjo-Lopez who told police that in October, a friend “asked if [she] wanted to make some money” and asked for her mobile banking information. Not long after, she said he deposited the fire company check into her account.
When $5,000 of the check had cleared, she met with the man and another man from New York at a bank branch in Connecticut and withdrew the $5,000, giving $3,700 to the men.
She kept $1,300 and spent it on household bills and to provide for her children. She also said she gave her card to one man and attempted to give money from the remaining proceeds from the check to the New York man but was unable to.
A few days later, Sanjurjo-Lopez’s bank account was overdrawn by $9,000 and closed.
She told police that she had never been to Pennsylvania and did not know anyone affiliated with the fire company. She added that she knew what she was doing was illegal and wanted to cooperate with the investigation as much as possible.
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