YORK, ME — Police arrested a woman suspected of attempting to fraudulently withdraw cash from a credit union using false identification.
Officers responded to Atlantic Federal Credit Union at 2:27 p.m. on Nov. 14 after receiving a report of a fraud in progress.
While en route, officers were notified that the female suspect had left the bank and was believed to have walked south on Route 1.
The suspect was described as a white female wearing jeans, white sneakers, a jacket, a winter hat, and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag.
Police said the woman presented false identification belonging to someone else in order to obtain a large cash withdrawal.
The same suspect was involved in a similar fraud on Nov. 13 in Wells.
An officer in an unmarked unit observed the suspect at the parking lot of Sherwin-Williams, located about a quarter-mile south of the credit union.
Officers arrested the woman at that location.
Police said they found a large amount of cash, a stolen driver’s license, a debit card, a fraudulent check, and narcotics in her possession.
The woman told police she was previously picked up in Philadelphia and had been put to work cashing checks by unknown males.
She said the males fled in a large black SUV, believed to be a Ford Explorer, which was involved in the Wells fraud and possibly related to Felony Lane Gang activity in the Northeast.
Lindsay Claire Rischow, 32, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged with aggravated forgery Class C.
She was transported to York County Jail.
