WILTON \u2014 Officers arrested two New York men accused of stealing a $300,000 check from the town of Wilton, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wilton police said the check was issued as a partial payment for the construction of the new Police Department building. The check had been deposited into an account opened by 62-year-old Davis Segui, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who was impersonating the intended recipient, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators found that, immediately after the stolen check was deposited into the account, $150,000 was transferred to a personal account belonging to\u00a0Mahamadou\u00a0Sillah, 26, of Bronx,\u00a0N.Y. Police said Sillah then \u201cwithdrew and benefited from\u00a0those funds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judicial records show the alleged crimes\u00a0occurred in March 2024. During a lengthy investigation, police used bank surveillance footage and other methods to identify Segui and Sillah as the suspects, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Segui was apprehended in New York City in July 2025 by U.S. Marshals and transported to Connecticut. He is charged with first-degree larceny and first-degree identity theft, and was arraigned in state Superior Court in Stamford July 31, 2025. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, according to judicial records.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Segui\u2019s bond initially was set at $1 million, according to police. Judicial records show he is being held on a $250,000 bond in the case and is next scheduled to appear in court June 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sillah was taken into custody by the New York Police Department\u2019s Bronx Warrant Squad and transported to Wilton police on Wednesday. He is charged with first-degree larceny and conspiracy to commit first-degree larceny, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sillah\u2019s bond initially was set at $500,000, though judicial records show he is being held on a $300,000 bond and is next scheduled to appear in court July 28.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILTON \u2014 Officers arrested two New York men accused of stealing a $300,000 check from the town of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,30496,63,32861],"class_list":["post-257742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-norwalk-hour","tag-nyc","tag-wilton-bulletin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257742","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=257742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}