Four New Yorkers arrested in Essex trying to defraud TD Bank

Four people were arrested on June 17 after police set up and searched a perimeter area around Earhart Road in Essex, Maryland, during a call of a banking fraud in progress.

Three of the suspects fled the TD Bank in the 1800 block of Eastern Boulevard in Essex when police responded around 11:30 a.m. Officers were provided information that one of the suspects may have been armed with a gun, so roadways were closed around Earhart Road as police set up and searched for the suspects.

A female suspect, identified as Danielle Guzzetti, 52 of Queens, New York, was arrested on the parking lot of the bank.

The investigation determined that Guzzetti along with three male suspects recently traveled from New York to Baltimore with the intentions of using fake identification cards to defraud various TD Banks and customers. On Wednesday, the four drove together to TD Bank on Eastern Boulevard. Guzzetti used a fraudulent identification card at the drive-through teller, asking to be given a debit card associated with an account that did not belong to her. A bank employee recognized the woman’s fraudulent actions and called police.

Guzzetti’s three male accomplices have been identified as Denzil Bailey, 22, Sha-lee Felder, 20, and Lenny Smalls, 19.  All three young men are residents of Brooklyn, New York.  The male suspects were found during the police search hiding together in the 1700 block of Earhart Road in Essex.

Guzzetti, Bailey, Felder, and Smalls were all charged with possession/use of a false government identification and displaying the government identification of another. They were all released on their own recognizance.

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(Cover photo: Mugshots of Danielle Guzzetti, Denzil Bailey, Sha-lee Felder, Lenny Smalls, Image credits, Baltimore County Police)

(Source: Baltimore County Police)

~ Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today / Connect with Richard on Facebook and Twitter