
LAJAS – A person was charged this Tuesday for illegal appropriation and fraud to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, the Police reported.
Agents from the Bank Theft Division investigated Paola M. Montalvo Caraballo, 20, and found that from June 15 to July 2020, the woman deposited four checks, for amounts of $ 6,126, $ 8,790, $ 8,724 dollars and 9,390 dollars, for a total of 33,030 dollars, product of illegal appropriations.
Montalvo Caraballo made the deposits at a Banco Popular branch in Lajas.
Prosecutor Elmer Cuerda Cruz presented four charges against Montalvo Caraballo before Judge Luis O. Vélez Vélez, who found cause in all the crimes and imposed a bond of $ 8,000, which was loaned.
The preview was scheduled for April 27, 2021.
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