{"id":220246,"date":"2026-05-05T03:36:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220246\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T03:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T03:36:38","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-woman-faces-slew-of-charges-after-alleged-identity-theft-at-westchester-square-academy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220246\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Woman Faces Slew Of Charges After Alleged Identity Theft At Westchester Square Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a 28-year-old woman is facing a slew of charges after allegedly stealing someone&#8217;s identity at Westchester Square Academy, one of six schools on 3000 Tremont Ave. campus.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officers took Kacy Claassen, of the Bronx, into custody just after 12 p.m. on April 27 following a 911 call for possible identity theft.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Claassen is charged with endangering the welfare of a child, criminal impersonation, possession of a forged instrument and criminal trespassing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An anonymous caller with ties to the high school tells News 12 Claassen enrolled in the school after spring break, using the identity of a 16-year-old girl. They say she was allowed to register without a parent present.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The caller also says Claassen wore a school uniform and made students uncomfortable, eventually leading one student to report the 28-year-old to administration.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Claassen was arraigned the day after her arrest. She pleaded not guilty to criminal impersonation and trespassing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the Department of Education for a statement and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a 28-year-old woman is facing a slew of charges after allegedly stealing someone&#8217;s identity at Westchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-220246","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220246","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=220246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}