PHILMONT — Investigators from SP Livingston arrested two people on Feb. 25 for stealing more than $2,220 from an elderly victim’s bank account and $690 in food stamp benefits.
An investigation determined that Samantha Mowris, 46, of Philmont, was working as a home health aide for the victim.
After the victim was placed in a nursing home in September, Mowris fraudulently wrote a series of checks from the victim’s bank account and used the victim’s food stamp card to purchase $690 worth of items at various stores.
The investigation also found that Christopher Nardone, 43, of Philmont, cashed forged checks from the victim’s bank account.
Mowris is charged with grand larceny in the third degree, burglary in the second degree, two counts of petit larceny, five counts of possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, falsifying business records in the first degree, identity theft in the second degree, conspiracy in the fifth degree, and grand larceny in the fourth degree.
Nardone is charged with petit larceny, three counts of possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, and conspiracy in the fifth degree.
Mowris and Nardone were arraigned in Greenport Town Court and are due back in court on March 17.
