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    Friday, April 26, 2024

    New York woman extradited to Connecticut on credit card fraud charges dating to 2009

    Montville -- A Bronx, N.Y., woman was extradited Wednesday from New York to Connecticut to answer to charges that she along with two others forged credit card applications to fraudulently obtain goods in 2009.

    Ebony Toney, 36, was charged by state police with first-degree larceny, third-degree larceny, third-degree forgery, false statement to procure a credit card, illegal use of a credit card, identity theft and criminal impersonation.

    State police said Toney and Archie Johnson, 54, and William Smith, 47, both from the Bronx, stole identities and opened credit accounts at Home Depot and Kohls from New York to Massachusetts in 2009.

    Police said they purchased thousands of dollars worth of items with the illegal credit cards.

    Toney was arrested with the assistance of the New York Police Department and the FBI.

    She was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Superior Court in Norwich.

    Johnson was sentenced in December 2009 to 30 months in prison for his role in the crime. Smith was sentenced to 18 months in November 2011.

    i.larraneta@theday.com

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