Greensboro, NC– A woman that police tried to stop as part of a fraud investigation at a local bank is dead after crashing her car.

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Greensboro Police said the woman was being investigated for possible fraud at the State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU).

According to a police report, a SECU employee called them around 12:17 pm to report a possible felony involving the use of stolen identification to cash a check. The suspect was at the bank’s drive thru on Muirs Chapel Road.

The first patrol officer saw the suspect’s car in the parking lot, turned on his blue lights and attempted to stop the car. The officer reported that the car left the parking lot at a high speed heading northbound on Muirs Chapel Road. The patrol officer followed, still attempting to get the suspect to stop.

Investigators said during the pursuit, the driver lost control in a curve, ran off the roadway and hit multiple trees in the 600 block of Muirs Chapel Road. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.

The passenger of the vehicle was transported by ambulance to Moses Cone Hospital. Her condition is listed as serious.

Police have not released the identity of the woman killed or the passenger.

No other vehicles were involved in the incident.

As is protocol, officers from the Greensboro Police Professional Standards Division are conducting an internal investigation to determine if proper procedures were followed in this incident.

Authorities have charged a real estate agent with fraud for illegally using a client’s personal information to secure a mortgage on a property, then operate her business and collect rent from the same location.

Sylvia Sexius, 46, was arrested today, charged with theft by deception, forgery and theft by unlawful taking, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office announced.

Authorities were alerted to the alleged crime in October, when a Newark woman reported she had been receiving foreclosure notices for an East Orange property she did not own.

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The prosecutor’s office financial crimes unit investigated and discovered that Sexius, an East Orange-based real estate agent, had completed a fraudulent mortgage on the property for $412,000 using the Newark woman’s personal information, authorities said. Sexius, of Orange, had allegedly obtained the information after having earlier refinanced the woman’s home.

Sexius took possession of the property at 520-524 Prospect St., then began operating her real estate business there while also collecting rental income from commercial and residential units in the same building, the prosecutor’s office said.

Newark Police Detective Aloma Wright and Detective Jeffrey Baker from the prosecutor’s office led the investigation.

LEX 18 is putting out a consumer watch alert after reports that scammers offering free money and cars are calling Lexington residents incessantly.

Roxanne Taylor cares for elderly patients, and she’s often responsible for answering the phone. So when she received a phone call that was too good to be true – she knew something was up.

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“(Monday) afternoon we got a phone call and the gentleman said we had won $2.5 million dollars and a new car,” said Taylor. The only catch was, “all he had to do was to put $500 on his credit card and it would all be delivered.

Fortunately, Taylor knew better. “I told him we weren’t interested, ” she said. But it didn’t end there, and Taylor said she received another call Tuesday morning, this time with a different voice. “He said he had won $500 dollars and a new Mercury, and he needed to go to the store and get a card for $99 dollars,” she said.

Even though Taylor didn’t fall for it – she fears others just will. “I just feel sorry for especially older people who don’t understand it’s a scam,” she said.

LEX 18 tried to call the number back ourselves, but there was no answer.

A few red flags you should keep an eye out for – out of country or unidentified numbers and of course, if someone calls and asks for money, you know its wrong because if you’ve won something you wont have to pay for it.