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Mar 5, 2024, 6:41 AM

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Police say that Kenyel Alexis Ventura-Villa, 23, is accused of stealing checks in 2022, forging them and then depositing them into an account that belonged to another person, who was arrested last year.

Ventura-Villa has been charged with second-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit second-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit identity theft in the first degree.

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