An insurance salesman from Woodmere was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly opened a policy in a customer’s name, police said.
Sheldon M. Bressler, 61, is charged with two counts of second-degree forgery, two counts of first-degree identity theft and two counts of first-degree falsifying business records. He will be arraigned on Wednesday at First District Court in Hempstead.
According to detectives, the 59-year-old female victim from Great Neck purchased a life insurance policy from Bressler, a sales agent for Mass Mutual Insurance Company, located at 48 South Service Rd., Suite 400, in Melville.
Bressler then allegedly used the information obtained from the victim to open an additional whole life insurance policy in her name. The defendant responded to the Third Squad and was placed under arrest without incident on Tuesday at 4:45 p.m.
