Buzzin Bizarre

This story appeared a while ago in New York, when two men wheeled a dead friend to a shop to cash his Social Security check.

They said that they didn’t know he was dead when they left to go to the store and the prosecutor’s couldn’t say exactly when he had died.

David Dalaia and James O’Hare were charged with forgery, criminal possession or a forged instrument, attempted larceny and improper disposal of a body, but on Tuesday, the charges were dismissed.

The two men had wheeled the dead body of Virgilio Cintron, through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store from their Manhattan apartment.  Police said “The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up and keeping him from flopping from side to side.”

The two men then left Cintron’s body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash the check.  The store’s clerk, who knew Cintron, asked the men where he was, and one of them said they would go and get him.

A police detective who was having lunch at a nearby restaurant next to the store, noticed a crowd forming around Cintron’s  body and “it’s immediately apparent to him that Cintron is dead” said the officer.  The detective immediately called the New York Police Department, and Emergency medical technicians arrived as the two men were preparing to wheel cintron’s body into the store, and they were then arrested.

Cintron’s body was taken to the hospital morgue.  The medical examiner’s office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died of natural causes within the previous 24 hours.