6 Accused Of Participating In Check Fraud Scheme

GOSHEN, NY — Six Orange County residents were accused of participating in a check fraud scheme to the tune of more than a quarter-million dollars.

Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler said Thursday that Turgaud Dubuisson, 29 of Newburgh; Anthony Dubuisson, 25, of Newburgh; Robert Geter, 46, of Newburgh; Marlon Tabora, 25, of Newburgh; Daniel DeLeon, 32, of Newburgh; and Tonya Best, 46, of Middletown were indicted by an Orange County Grand Jury in connection with a wide-ranging fraud scheme that spanned from March 2021 through April 2022.

It resulted in a loss of more than $250,000 to local businesses.

Prosecutors said for more than a year the six people engaged in a scheme of depositing altered and/or fraudulent checks belonging to Ironworkers Local 417 and other area businesses and individuals into various bank accounts.

They then withdrew cash from those fake deposits from multiple banks.

The total amount of forged and altered checks from the union was more than $190,000. From the others, the total amount was more than $250,000, police said.

Search warrants executed at a home resulted in the recovery of two loaded firearms, as well as financial information, blank checks and other items used to create and alter checks, prosecutors said.

The investigation was led by the Town of Newburgh Police Department with the assistance of the Town of New Windsor Police Department, Dutchess County Sheriff's Office, Orange County District Attorney's Office investigators, Orange County Sheriff's Office and the state Department of Financial Services.

Charges include second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second- and third-degree grand larceny, second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument and third-degree criminal possession of forgery devices.

Turbaud Dubuisson, Anthony Dubuisson and Geter were held in lieu of bail. Tabora was released on his own recognizance. DeLeon and Best were being held pending arraignment.