TORRINGTON — A Florida man accused of scamming $27,400 from an elderly city woman posted a $250,000 bond Thursday night, a day after he was arraigned in state court on a charge of first-degree larceny.
Police say Shawn Williams, 41, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., convinced a woman in her 70s to transfer funds from her bank account to his under the pretext that he was a bank representative and the move was necessary to protect her during a fraud investigation.
Torrington police Lt. Ken Brouillard said Williams convinced the woman that his name was Isaac Harper and he represented Webster Bank’s Fraud Prevention Department, and that she needed to transfer funds to another bank to keep it safe, the warrant for Williams arrest states. Her account, he told her, was compromised, according to the warrant…