By —Tom Tracy
Call her the check-kiting chick. A 22-year-old Brighton Beach woman was arrested last week after she was found routinely passing bad checks at a borough, police alleged. Officials said that the woman, who police identified as Anna Levina of the 2700 block of Coney Island Avenue, was allegedly caught trying to deposit a stolen check into her account, and then try to withdraw $200 from the check, knowing full well that the check would bounce. Officials said that Levina entered the Washington Mutual Savings Bank at 355 5th Avenue at 1 p.m. on December 23 and tried to deposit a $2400 check from the Ukranian National Credit Union into an account in her name, police alleged. She then told the teller that she wanted to take $200 from her account. When asked for ID to prove that she is the checking account holder, she provided a forged New Jersey driver’s license, police alleged. The teller ran the numbers on the license, and discovered that they didn’t exit, according to officials. Cops were called as bank employees determined that she had three accounts with Washington Mutual. Investigators determined later that Levina allegedly passed a number of bad checks to each of these accounts and then tried to pull some money from the account – money that didn’t exist, officials alleged. The check that she had tried to deposit was stolen weeks before, officials alleged. Levina, officials alleged, claimed that a friend of hers gave her the check and she did not know that it was stolen. Cops charged her with forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, grand larceny, scheme to defraud, criminal possession of stolen property and false impersonation.
