A man faces forgery and identity theft charges for allegedly using a fake license in an attempt to impersonate someone at a bank in Oxford last week.
Oxford police responded to the bank on Friday around 3:40 p.m. on the report of someone using a phony ID to access a customer’s account information, according to Connecticut State Police.
An employee of the bank told police that an individual had come in with a driver’s license in an attempt to retrieve account statements from a customer of the bank, state police said. The information on the identification matched that of the customer, but a scanned photo of the customer’s license that was kept in the bank’s system showed that the individual was not the same person.
The employee contacted police as the individual was kept waiting at the bank, state police said.
According to state police, officers conducted a check using Department of Motor Vehicle records and confirmed that all of the information was correct on the identification, but the photo was not the same individual.
The man was arrested and taken to Troop A in Southbury. State police said he refused to give police his identity. He was eventually identified as 42-year-old Oronde S. Homan of Bridgeport, according to state police.
State police alleged that Homan later admitted that his friend had given him a fake license and asked him to use it to attempt to obtain bank statements. He was charged with second-degree forgery, third-degree identity theft and criminal impersonation.
Homan was released on a $15,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Derby Superior Court on Dec. 5.
State police said they notified the identity theft victim of the incident.