MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — A woman from Ohio is facing several forgery and theft related charges after police arrested her at a Murrysville bank, attempting to use fake identification to withdraw money from an account that was not hers.
Jennifer Folzenlogen of Ohio is now in the Westmoreland County Jail after police said she tried to withdraw money from an account that wasn’t hers last week at the First National Bank in Murrysville.
“It was about $3,200 this time, and we were informed back in April at our Murrysville location, that she took about $3,000 then as well,” said Detective Sergeant Daniel Cox of the Murrysville Police Department.
According to police, Folzenlogen is linked to at least three other withdrawals in April at other First National Bank locations. Police said she withdrew $3,000 from the First National Bank on North Main Street in Greensburg, $2,400 from an account at the Woodward Drive location, and also stopped at the South Main Street location on April 7.
When she was arrested last week, police said she tried to withdraw money with a fake ID.
“It was a fake ID with someone else’s information on there, essentially,” Cox said.
State police said Folzenlogen has committed similar fraud throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio, has an active warrant out of Indiana for fraud, and said she is connected to a larger crime ring in New York.
Police said that crime ring is committing mail fraud and researching victims online, stealing their information, creating those fake IDs, and withdrawing money from their bank accounts.
“There’s nothing anybody can really do,” Cox said. “If you send something through the mail, you are at risk to falling for this scam. The only thing you can do is monitor your bank account to see if you’re a victim of this, you can alert the bank right away.”
Channel 11 has learned federal agencies, several state agencies, and police departments in several states have all now joined this investigation.
Cox praised the work of the Murrysville First National Bank, but said banks in general could do a better job alerting police to situations like this.
“We wish they would call more,” Cox said. “Luckily, in our case, the bank teller actually knew who this person was right when they walked in, they recognized her as soon as they saw her. Hopefully banks do a better job of sharing suspicious people within the network, and people do a good job, it worked out here.”
Folzenlogen is currently scheduled to face a judge on her charges in Murrysville Tuesday morning.
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