Florida Woman Charged With Forging Fraudulent Checks In Bucks

NEW BRITAIN BOROUGH, PA — A 25-year-old Florida woman faces multiple felony charges for forging and cashing more than $16,000 in fraudulent checks last fall in New Britain Borough.

Gisela Rosalin Crichlow was arrested on Jan. 30 following extradition from Miami, Florida to Pennsylvania. She has been charged by the Central Bucks Regional Police Department with forgery, theft by deception, identity theft, receiving stolen property and writing bad checks.

Police said last October, Crichlow, along with another defendant, forged and cashed four fraudulent checks totaling $16,500 from the victim's account. The bad checks were cashed in Hialeah and Miami, Florida.

In December, a warrant was issued for her arrest.