A New York Metropolis fireplace division EMT has been indicted for allegedly stealing a debit card from a 79-year-old affected person and utilizing it to splurge on champagne, pizza and munchies at Buffalo Wild Wings, prosecutors mentioned Tuesday.
Robert Marshall, 29, who was arrested over the summer season, has now been indicted on grand larceny and different expenses for allegedly swiping the aged girl’s card whereas responding to an emergency name at her Queens house on Aug. 8, based on court docket information.
The sufferer was taken to Lengthy Island Jewish Hospital and launched on Aug. 14. In some unspecified time in the future earlier than returning to her house in Springfield Backyard, she realized that her purple debit card was lacking from her purse, based on the indictment.
Surveillance footage from Hamill’s Wines and Liquor allegedly reveals Marshall utilizing the cardboard to purchase two bottles of Moet et Chandon champagne for $174.18 on the identical day that he responded to the sufferer’s house, the indictment mentioned.
The cardboard was additionally used to purchase meals at a brick-oven pizzeria and at Buffalo Wild Wings, in addition to to purchase groceries at a Key Meals market, and at 4 Suds Laundry, the indictment mentioned.
The sufferer’s daughter recognized Marshall as one of many emergency responders at her mother’s house.
In a press release, Queens District Lawyer Melinda Katz mentioned Marshall used the stolen card “to indulge himself.
“When these tasked with serving to New Yorkers abuse their positions of belief and harm New Yorkers, they are going to be held accountable,” the assertion mentioned.
Marshall’s lawyer, Oliver Storch, urged the general public to not choose his shopper prematurely.
“Mr. Marshall is within the enterprise of saving lives, and he was terribly shocked by these allegations,” Storch instructed The Publish Tuesday. “Everybody ought to withhold judgment till this case is full.”
Marshall was arraigned Monday on expenses of fourth-degree grand larceny and petty larceny and launched with out bail pending a return court docket look on Dec. 16.
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