A Montreal female faces 10 criminal charges after opening several bank accounts in Guelph in false names, report Guelph police.
Last Friday afternoon Guelph police were called to a downtown bank where the female had previously set up an account in a false name and applied for a credit card. A staff member was suspicious of the identification offered and noted there had been previous attempts to open accounts in the same name.
Police arrived and the female provided her true identity, which was later confirmed by Montreal police. She was arrested for personation and fraud, and a search of her belongings subsequent to arrest revealed several documents in other names which had been used to open other bank accounts and obtain credit cards.
A 20-year-old Montreal female is charged with three counts of uttering forged documents, two counts each of fraud under $5,000, identity theft and possessing identity documents and one count of personation.
She was held in custody for a bail hearing on the weekend and has been released to appear in a Guelph court March 16.
