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Verily, who amongst us hasn't tried that at one time or another?
By MARCUS FRANKLIN
NEW YORK (AP) - Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said.
David J. Dalaia and James O'Hare pushed Virgilio Cintron's body from the Manhattan apartment that O'Hare and Cintron shared to Pay-O-Matic, about a block away, spokesman Paul Browne said witnesses told police.
"The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up and keeping him from flopping from side to side," Browne said.
The men left Cintron's body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash his $355 check, Browne said. The store's clerk, who knew Cintron, asked the men where he was, and O'Hare told the clerk they would go and get him, Browne said.
A police detective who was having lunch at a restaurant next to the check-cashing store noticed a crowd forming around Cintron's body, and "it's immediately apparent to him that Cintron is dead," Browne said.
The detective called uniformed New York Police Department officers at a nearby precinct. Emergency medical technicians arrived as O'Hare and Dalaia were preparing to wheel Cintron's body into the check-cashing store, Browne said. Police arrested Dalaia and O'Hare there, he said.
Cintron's body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner's office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died of natural causes within the previous 24 hours, Browne said.
"He was deceased in the apartment when he was removed by these two," Browne said.
Dalaia and O'Hare, both 65, were being held by police and faced check fraud charges, Browne said.
A call to a telephone number listed for Cintron at the apartment he shared with O'Hare went unanswered Tuesday evening. Police said they didn't have an address for Dalaia or attorney information for him or O'Hare.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080109/D8U24GJ80.html
Verily, who amongst us hasn't tried that at one time or another?
This story would make a great movie!
It would be even better if the check was for a quadrillion dollars.
Man, you can't get nothing for free these days.
weekend at Bernie's 3?
Damn you beat me to it!
Freakin' geniuses
buisness must be dead at the check cashing place ....muhahaha
They should have just come to the same hole cash checking place that the guys who stole our tax refund check went to. They let them cash it even though the rather than signing the check they printed our names and managed to mispell them to boot. I bet they wouldn't bat an eye at the thought that the man in the office chair outside with the flies buzzing around him asked these two guys to wheel him out and cash his check before falling into a very, very deep sleep.
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