{"id":166776,"date":"2026-03-17T23:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166776\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:26:46","slug":"bronx-ny-man-charged-with-forgery-and-felony-theft-wgmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166776\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx, NY Man Charged with Forgery and Felony Theft \u2013 WGMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5573056\" class=\"wp-image-5573056 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MichaelSmith-NY-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"253\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 181px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 181\/253;\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5573056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy DSP<\/p>\n<p>A Bronx, New York man has been arrested for forgery and felony theft. Delaware State Police were contacted by a 75 year old Milford woman who told them she had mailed a check to pay a bill and was notified that the payment was not received. She learned that $6000 was withdrawn from her account. Detectives learned the check was intercepted, altered and cashed at a bank in New York by 32 year old Michael Smith of the Bronx, New York. A warrant was obtained for his arrest and Smith turned himself in at JP Court 2 and taken to Troop 7 where he was charged. <\/p>\n<p>Forgery 2nd Degree \u2013 Alters Written Instrument of Another Person without Authority (Felony)<br \/>\nTheft $1,500 or Greater and the Victim is 62 Years of Age or Older (Felony)<\/p>\n<p>Smith was arraigned and released on a $5000 unsecured bond.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image courtesy DSP A Bronx, New York man has been arrested for forgery and felony theft. Delaware State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130,68403,68404,68406,68405],"class_list":["post-166776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-wgmd","tag-wgmd-news-radio","tag-wgmd-news-talk-sports","tag-wgmd-the-talk-of-delmarva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}