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 suspended 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 is back in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bail.
