State police have charged a Blairsville man for his part in a check scam that went from West Virginia to Indiana to New Kensington.
Police announced that on Monday, they arrested 55-year-old Robert Brian Stutzman of Blairsville on felony charges of receiving stolen property and conspiracy to that crime for an investigation that started with a notification from West Virginia police.
The victim reported to the Tyler County Sheriff’s office that he was scammed out of $42,550 after sending a cashier’s check in that amount to Robert Stutzman at the CVS Pharmacy in White Township via UPS. The check was reportedly retrieved on March 15th. Troopers reviewed security footage from the CVS Pharmacy and found a man later identified as Stutzman arrived at the pharmacy, retrieved mail from the front counter, talked with a CVS employee, secured the package that allegedly had the check then left. Stutzman was found at his home on Monday and upon further investigation learned that Stutzman did pick up the check and later deposited it in an account at Huntingdon Bank in New Kensington on the instructions of someone he met online. The money had not yet been withdrawn from the account when police started their investigation.
Stutzman was arraigned before district judge Susanne Steffee and placed in Indiana County Jail in lieu of $200,000 cash bail. A preliminary hearing is set for April 2nd.
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