POLICE LOG: Business Reports Fraudulent Checks Over $4K

The following is an excerpt from the Woburn Police Department log. Please note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account. We report all arrests included in the daily police log.

Featured Incident

May 9-

At 8:12 a.m. police responded to DiCicco Gulman & Company on a report of fraud. A director spoke with police and said that on May 7 an employee received a phone call from a woman regarding a question about a check in the amount of $1,986 she had received from the company. The woman said she thought it was a mistake. The director said she contacted the woman and said it was a fraudulent check and asked her to send a copy.

The company got another call, this time from a man, who said he had also received a check and didn’t know why. That check was for $2,150.

The caller said she reviewed the accounts and found a fraudulent check attempted to clear on May 6 for 2150.

Police advised the caller to forward any information on fraudulent checks to them to help the investigation.

Other Incidents

May 6-

At 4:18 p.m. a woman came to the station to report that she had left her credit card on the counter at the Dunkin Donuts at 880 Main Street at about 1:30 p.m. that day. She returned a short while later after getting gas and the card was not where she left it and it wasn’t with the store employees.

She contacted her credit card provider and cancelled the card and nobody had tried to do anything with it.

May 8-

At 10:32 p.m. police responded to the intersection of Main Street and Middlesex Canal Park on a report of a hit and run accident. According to the operator of the vehicle struck, the other operator ran a red light and struck their vehicle causing damage to the rear quarter panel and tire. The driver was not injured and the car was driven from the scene.

The suspect vehicle was white but the make and model are unknown.