MILFORD — A New Haven woman was arrested on a warrant Tuesday afternoon in connection with a scheme to use an elderly victim’s identity to pay her bills, police said.
Jacqueline Edgehill, 36, of 103 Winchester Ave., was charged with three counts of identity theft in the second degree. She was released on a promise to appear May 22 in Superior Court.
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In December 2010 police received a complaint of a pocketbook theft from a shopping cart in a parking lot on the Boston Post Road.
In May 2011, the elderly victim noticed that she had not been receiving her monthly electric utility bill in the mail, police said.
Investigation revealed that the invoices were being sent to Edgehill’s residence, where electric services were being received in the victim’s name, police alleged. Edgehill was subsequently arrested.
A check of the elderly woman’s credit revealed that three more utility accounts were created using the victim’s name and Social Security number, resulting in all three accounts in collections for past due balances. Investigation revealed that Edgehill was responsible for opening the fraudulent accounts, police said. The fraudulent activities took place March to November 2011, with charges of more than $3,400, police said.
