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Whitpain Police have issued an arrest warrant for a New Jersey woman wanted for identity theft stemming from a September 2024 incident.
A resident of the township stated that on Saturday, Sept. 28, she’d checked her Truist Bank account on her Smartphone app and discovered the following two fraudulent transactions:
The woman gave Whitpain Township Police two bank slips associated with each withdrawal, police said. According to a police criminal complaint, WTPD also obtained a search warrant and later received bank records from Truist Financial. The warrant was completed on Oct. 9, and on Nov. 6, the department received video surveillance of a defendant later identified as Beth Sharon Donnamaria, 57, of the 200 block of Adams Street in Hoboken, N.J.
Police said the video showed the same woman, Donnamarie, cashing both checks. The bank account owner said they did not know Donnamarie and had never allowed transactions, said the complaint.
Police said that Donnamaria used fraudulent identification to cash the two checks at a Bedford, Va. bank location. Donnamaria was identified via a crime sharing network and matched to her New Jersey driver’s license photo, in addition to a recent arrest photograph from an arrest by Prince William County Police Department.
Donnamaria is facing felony charges of identity theft and accessing a device that is counterfeit, altered, or incomplete. A warrant has been issued for her arrest.
