Man wanted in Bucks County $16K check fraud and ID theft case arrested in Miami

A Florida man wanted by Central Bucks authorities on felony forgery, theft and identity theft charges for allegedly forging and cashing more than $16,000 in fraudulent checks was arrested in Miami-Dade County on Christmas Eve on similar offenses.

Andy Javar Salas-Martinez, 24, of Miami, is charged by Central Bucks Regional Police for the offenses that involved a New Britain Borough resident in October. Salas-Martinez was charged with three felony counts each of the aforementioned offenses, as well as three misdemeanor charges of writing bad checks, according to court records.

Salas-Martinez has an alleged accomplice still at-large: Gisela Rosalin Crichlow, 25, of Miami. Circhlow is charged with one felony count each of forgery, theft by deception, identity theft, and receiving stolen property, as well as misdemeanor writing bad checks, according to court records.

    Gisela Crichlow. (Credit: Central Bucks Regional Police)
  

Authorities allege both defendants forged and cashed four fraudulent checks totaling $16,500 from the account of a victim of Carousel Circle in Hialeah and Miami.

In the Dec. 24 Miami-Dade County arrest, according to MugshotsZone, Salas-Martinez is charged with two counts of possession of personal identification for fraudulent use, grand theft, forging a check and resisting an officer without violence.

Per reports, he has an $8,000 bond.

A representative of the victims in the Miami-Dade incident told North Penn Now that the Dec. 24 incident occurred in Coral Gables at a TD Bank, where Salas-Martinez allegedly scammed a young couple's account, and also used their phone number in the crime.

The male victim called his wife, but a strange woman answered the phone call instead, while Salas-Martinez was in the bank, said the victims' spokesperson.

All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.