{"id":220949,"date":"2026-05-05T18:33:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220949\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:33:40","slug":"ny-man-tried-to-cash-stolen-tax-refund-check-at-wilton-bank-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220949\/","title":{"rendered":"NY man tried to cash stolen tax refund check at Wilton bank: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WILTON \u2014 A New York man was arrested last week after police said he tried to cash a stolen tax refund check at a Connecticut bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man, identified as Tyrese Niles, reportedly tried to cash the check at the Webster Bank on Town Green Road in Wilton on April 28, according to the\u00a0Wilton Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the bank for the report of a suspicious man attempting to cash a stolen tax refund check from the Internal Revenue Service, police said. Police said Niles, a Bronx, N.Y., resident, also had a fake ID.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As officers arrived, Niles began running away, according to police. Officers chased Niles and detained him on the Town Green lawn before he was able to escape into a getaway vehicle, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police charged Niles with third-degree larceny, second-degree identity theft, conspiracy to commit second-degree identity theft, criminal impersonation, second-degree forgery, tampering with physical evidence and interfering with an officer.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial records indicate he was being held on a $25,000 bond and is scheduled to appear at state Superior Court in Stamford June 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILTON \u2014 A New York man was arrested last week after police said he tried to cash a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,30496,63,129,131,130,32861],"class_list":["post-220949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-norwalk-hour","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-wilton-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220949","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=220949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}