AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (WNYT)- Montgomery County officials said an Amsterdam woman is accused of fraud after investigators said she wrongly received $36,667 in SNAP benefits.<\/p>\n
Related: Amsterdam man dies after e-bike crash at Guy Park Avenue intersection<\/a><\/p>\n Sheriff Jeffery T. Smith said a joint investigation by the Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office Criminal Investigation Unit, the Department of Social Services and the Montgomery County District Attorney\u2019s Office led to the arrest of Elise M. Roberts, 34, on May 5.<\/p>\n Authorities said Roberts, of Amsterdam, is charged with nine counts of First-Degree Offering a False Instrument for Filing and one count of Third-Degree Welfare Fraud. Officials allege she failed to report all people living in her household and all income being earned.<\/p>\n Roberts was processed at the Montgomery County Sheriff\u2019s Office and held pending arraignment in City of Amsterdam Court. Officials said she was later released on her own recognizance and given a return date to court.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0SNAP<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Montgomery County<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Arrest<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Amsterdam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (WNYT)- Montgomery County officials said an Amsterdam woman is accused of fraud after investigators said she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,1454,1452,200,40878],"class_list":["post-76360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-arrest","tag-montgomery-county","tag-netherlands","tag-snap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116529235789276898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}