KINGSTON – A man, who was released from the Ulster County Jail on
probation, was returned to the facility on new charges.
The Ulster County Sheriff’s Office said while Dustin Carmichael,
28, of Napanoch, was in jail, they received an electronic notification
that a woman had placed a credit card transaction of $3,255 in an attempt
to bail him out.
Investigation determined Carmichael had obtained the woman’s credit
card information on a piece of paper prior to being incarcerated and held
onto it while in jail. He used that information to call a bail and bonds
service company purporting to be the woman who owned the credit card to
place the transaction.
When corrections officers questioned Carmichael about the piece of paper,
he flushed it down the toilet in his cell.
The transaction was suspected by authorities.
He was released from jail by Ellenville Village Court two weeks after
he was arrested on the initial charge and sentenced to probation.
The credit card was traced to a woman in Wyoming County, New York, who
was unaware that Carmichael had her card information and used it.
One month later, on July 19, Carmichael was located in Ellenville and
charged with grand larceny and tampering with physical evidence, both
as felonies.
He was remanded back to the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.
