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Cops: Woman Arrested for Committing Multiple Larcenies at Special Needs Group Home

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By Published: September 21 2018

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Unique Williams of East Meadow, 27, has been charged with 11 counts of Petit Larceny, officials report.

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SCPD arrested Unique Williams of East Meadow, 27, for stealing money from special needs persons.

Photo by: Suffolk County Police Department

Garden City, NY - Sept. 21, 2018 - Suffolk County Police on Wednesday, September 19 arrested an East Meadow Woman for stealing money from 11 special needs persons at a group home in West Babylon.
 
Unique Williams was the Resident Manager at the Maryhaven Center of Hope group home located at 720 Albin Ave., West Babylon when she took cash totaling $1,889 dollars from the 11 resident’s accounts on December 4, 2017. A supervisor from the group home noticed a discrepancy in the accounts and contacted the Suffolk County Police Department.
 
After a thorough investigation by the First Precinct Crime Section, officers arrested Williams at the First Precinct on September 19 at approximately 10:30 p.m. Williams, 27, of East Meadow, was charged with 11 counts of Petit Larceny. She will be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on November 28.
 
Police are asking anyone who might have been a victim of Unique Williams to contact First Precinct Crime Section at (631) 854-8126 or anonymously to Crime Stoppers 1-800-220-TIPS. 
 
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