Woman Arrested for ID Theft While Temping for Doctor's Office

Stamford police arrested a 42-year-old Mount Vernon, NY, woman Monday afternoon for making she had access to while temping for a Stamford-based doctor's office. According to police, the woman was employed by Staff Providers, a Wilton-based staffing agency, to work at a doctor’s office in the city’s downtown area. While the manager was out, police said, the temp collected co-pays from patients, which she was not authorized to do. For patients using credit cards, the temp reportedly said she didn’t know how to operate the credit card machine, so she made print copies of each credit card and told them that the payments would be processed by the office manager. A couple of weeks later, patients began calling the office and telling the manager that there were fraudulent charges being made to their credit cards — more than $1,400 total, police said.

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A Greenwich woman is facing larceny charges after she apparently her babysitter’s jewelry. According to police, the 20-year-old mom was outed when the babysitter, looking for clothing for her young charge, discovered several pieces of her own jewelry in the child’s backpack.

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No charges have been filed, but Norwalk police must be on the lookout for the next installment of what appears to be a between two area psychics. Before dawn on Friday, a 22-year-old woman told police at Norwalk Hospital’s emergency room, as she was being treated for injuries, that she’d been attacked by three people the prior day, as she prepared to do a psychic reading. One of the alleged attackers was identified as a 39-year-old Norwalk man who owns his own psychic establishment—a man who’d been arrested last year on assault, threatening and breach of peace charges following an incident that involved the first psychic’s family. According to alleged victim in this week’s incident, the three attackers barged through her door, attacked her and said to keep her mouth shut or they would return and kill her.

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Fairfield police officers on Wednesday a 46-year-old Bridgeport man who reportedly called them to what he described at first as the scene of a robbery. But after speaking with police, the man would confess that he hadn’t been robbed at all. Instead, Michael Roberts reportedly confessed that the batteries and gum he had with him had been shoplifted from a Westport Stop & Shop. Police said Roberts initially told them that a man had stolen his wallet with $120 in it, part of a long story. According to police, Roberts also admitted later that the name and birth date he originally supplied police officers were his cousin’s.

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In Darien, a police investigation into suspicious persons at a fire-damaged home believed to be vacant led to . Police found a two people—a 21-year-old town man and a minor—in possession of marijuana inside the Old Kings Highway residence. Though speaking with the pair, police reportedly discovered that a heroin delivery was imminent, and set up a perimeter. Soon, a pair of Bridgeport men arrived in the area and—when approached by police—one of them tried to run off, throwing away three packages of heroin as he went, police said.