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Branford police tied career criminal Andrew Finkler, 56, to a credit card theft. The New Haven man was sentenced to 8 years in prison for fraud. (Branford Police Department)
BRANFORD, CT A credit card had been stolen from a local gym. Branford police Detective Arthur Ferris and officer Brett Johnson investigated and tracked the theft to a New Haven man named Andrew Finkler, police said.
At around the same time, investigators learned that the U.S. Attorney and the U.S. Secret Service were also investigating Finkler, now 56.
In what Branford Police Department Lt. Dominick Eula described as both a profound and important case based on a years-long fraud scheme, forces were joined as Branford wasn t the only Connecticut town where Finkler was then-alleged to have stolen identities through credit card theft and fraud.