Group of Three Arrested After Exchanging Cost-U-Less Employee's Pay With Counterfeit Bills

  • Staff Consortium
  • February 01, 2020
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From left to right: Jose Rodriguez, Kenisha Hendrickson and Wendy Ann Joseph

From left to right: Jose Rodriguez, Kenisha Hendrickson and Wendy Ann Joseph Photo Credit: THE VIRGIN ISLANDS POLICE DEPARTMENT

ST. CROIX — Police on Friday at 7:30 a.m. arrested Jose Rodriguez, 28, Kenisha Hendrickson, 35, and Wendyann Joseph, age 25 — all of Bethlehem Village — and charged them with passing forged bills or notes, obtaining money by false pretense and grand larceny, the V.I.P.D. has announced.

According to the V.I.P.D. Public Information Officer Toby Derima, an investigation revealed that on September 6, 2019, while employed at Cost-U-Less, Hendrickson and Joseph were observed on surveillance camera switching a sum of money in counterfeit bills that Hendrickson received from Rodriguez with another employee’s daily cash proceeds, without the employee’s knowledge.

Unable to make bail of $50,000 each, the suspects were remanded to the Golden Grove Detention Center pending their advisement hearing.

If you have knowledge of money being stolen from a business or an elderly person, please call 911, the Economic Crimes Unit at (340) 778-2211, or Crime Stoppers USVI at (800) 222-8477.

 

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