July 18, 2018 -- Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced Anthony Williams of the Bronx was arraigned Tuesday before Westchester County Court Judge Anne Minihan on a 19-count indictment related to the theft of two luxury cars charging Grand Larceny, Identity Theft and related crimes.
Specifically, he is charged with 13 felonies as follows:
- two counts of Grand Larceny in the Second Degree, class C felonies
- two counts of Identity Theft in the First Degree, class D felonies
- three counts of Forgery in the Second Degree, class D felonies
- three counts of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree, class D felonies
- three counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree, class E felonies
Williams pleaded not guilty and was remanded into custody. He is due back in Court July 13, 2018. If convicted of all the charges he faces up to 30 years in prison.
Background
The indictment alleges Anthony Williams stole the identity of an attorney with the United States Department of Justice, and then used that stolen identity to finance two BMW automobiles at the Ray Catena BMW of Westchester on Tarrytown Road in the Town of Greenburgh. The defendant was able to fraudulently purchase the vehicles on two separate dates at the dealership by producing a forged Maryland driver’s license in the name of the DOJ attorney. The two vehicles, a BMW 650xi and a BMW X6, had a sales value totaling $186,267.20.
Williams was arrested May 8, 2017, in Brooklyn in possession of one of the vehicles by detectives in the Greenburgh Police Department.
Assistant District Attorney Adrian Murphy of the Investigations Division Identity Theft Unit is prosecuting the case.
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