BUFFALO — A 26-year-old Buffalo woman was arraigned in State Supreme Court on charges of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and a 38-year-old Buffalo woman with three counts of criminal possession of stolen property and a count each of second-degree identity theft and second-degree forgery.

According to Acting District Attorney Michael J. Flaherty, Jr. Kenisha Jones, while working as a nurse’s aide at St. Joseph Hospital in Cheektowaga, stole the credit card of an 88-year-old patient who died of natural causes. Ninety minutes after the victim’s death, Jones is accused of using the card at a Sunoco on Delevan Avenue in Buffalo.

Then a second individual, Lashawn Lewis is accused of using the card a few hours later at FastTrack, a gas station/convenience store on Bailey Avenue in Buffalo, the Walmart on Sheridan Drive in Amherst — where two large flat screen TVs were purchased — and at the 7-Eleven on Bailey Avenue in Buffalo.

Both pleaded not guilty in court. Jones was released on her own recognizance and Lewis was remanded to jail on $25,000 bail.



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