Only in New York......

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Men Wheel Dead Roommate to Check Cashing Store, Arrested for Trying to Cash His Social Security Check

Tuesday , January 08, 2008

AP


NEW YORK  ?
Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said.

David J. Dalaia and James O'Hare pushed Virgilio Cintron's body from the Manhattan apartment that O'Hare and Cintron shared to Pay-O-Matic, about a block away, spokesman Paul Browne said witnesses told police.

"The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up and keeping him from flopping from side to side," Browne said.

The men left Cintron's body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash his $355 check, Browne said. The store's clerk, who knew Cintron, asked the men where he was, and O'Hare told the clerk they would go and get him, Browne said.

A police detective who was having lunch at a restaurant next to the check-cashing store noticed a crowd forming around Cintron's body, and "it's immediately apparent to him that Cintron is dead," Browne said.

The detective called uniformed New York Police Department officers at a nearby precinct. Emergency medical technicians arrived as O'Hare and Dalaia were preparing to wheel Cintron's body into the check-cashing store, Browne said. Police arrested Dalaia and O'Hare there, he said.

Cintron's body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner's office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died of natural causes within the previous 24 hours, Browne said.

"He was deceased in the apartment when he was removed by these two," Browne said.

Dalaia and O'Hare, both 65, were being held by police and faced check fraud charges, Browne said.

A call to a telephone number listed for Cintron at the apartment he shared with O'Hare went unanswered Tuesday evening. Police said they didn't have an address for Dalaia or attorney information for him or O'Hare.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,321197,00.html

[Eazy E]

Was it THIS man?!?!   

[SLCPUNK]

Beat me to it.

[Bill 213]

Hahah do I smell promotion for Weekend at Bernie's 3?

[D]

Damn

How stupid do u have to be

[Sin Cut]

Damn

How stupid do u have to be

They're as stupid as D love's his sheep

[horsey]

what does this have to do with g n r ?
we need news very soon we are bored as hell ,jarmo !

[Sin Cut]

what does this have to do with g n r ?
we need news very soon we are bored as hell ,jarmo !

This is the jungle. What does relationship questions d with gnr? or the president election thread?

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Weekend at Bernies....I did not see that one coming 

[JMack]

Why does this suprise anybody??

[Bandita]

Gotta love NYers.  I worked for the Bank of NY in a shady area about a decade ago and I busted a lady trying to cash her dead mother's social security check.   

[crazycheryl]

Why did they bring the dude with? In case she wanted him to provide proof? He's dead. He is not going to give the cashier anything. The other two are ate up old men.

[TAP]

Why did they bring the dude with?

Yeah, that's what I couldn't work out either.

[Bandita]

Why did they bring the dude with?

Yeah, that's what I couldn't work out either.

Well, I am guessing from the article that he was in a wheelchair and the check cashing people were familiar with him so they probably said that he was waiting outside hoping no one would notice he was dead.