On March 31, 2026, a financial officer for Maplewood Senior Living of Westport reported that the business had been the victim of check fraud. Three checks mailed as payments to the same vendor between October 2025 and February 2026 had allegedly been intercepted and altered to name different payees.
One of the checks, in the amount of $12,085.12, was altered to list 25-year-old Tiery Mene of Rahway, New Jersey, as the payee. Further investigation, including the execution of search warrants for bank records, allegedly showed that Mene deposited the check into his personal account. After the check cleared, police said Mene made several additional payment transactions to himself and others. An arrest warrant was subsequently obtained.
On Thursday, September 10, 2026, Westport detectives responded to the Union County Sheriff’s Office Division of Corrections in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Mene was being held in connection with the active Westport arrest warrant. He was transported to Westport and charged with Identity Theft in the Third Degree, Forgery in the First Degree, Larceny in the Second Degree and Unlawful Possession of a Personal Identifying Information Access Device.
Bond was set at $75,000. Mene was unable to post bond and was transported to Stamford Superior Court for arraignment on Friday, September 11, 2026.