NYC Man Busted in Attempt to Buy Rolex with Fake Credit Cards

Greenwich Police say a Brooklyn, NY man tried to purchase a $23,000 Rolex watch from a Greenwich Avenue jeweler over the weeekend by using credit cards that were found to be fraudulent.

Officers were summoned to Betteridge Jewelers, 117 Greenwich Ave., at 4:17 p.m. Sept. 10 on a report that possible fraudulent credit cards were being used by a customer. The two cards being used by the customer would not process, according to a police report. Det. Mark Solomon, who is assigned to the Connecticut Financial Crimes Task Force, was brought in and determined that the security holograms and the numbers on the two cards were fake.

The suspect, identified as Emeli Kwasi Attipoe, 32, of Brooklyn, NY, also had an Illinois driver's license which he admitted was fake, according to police.

Attipoe was charged with four counts of 2nd-degree forgery; three counts of unlawful completion of a credit card; and one count each of interfering with an officer and criminal attempt at 1st-degree larceny.

He was held in lieu of $50,000 bond and scheduled to appear Sept. 19 in state Superior Court in Stamford.