David Dalaia and James O’Hare, were seen wheeling Virgilio Cintron’s body on a chair from their Manhattan apartment to a cheque-cashing store a block away.
Their crazy plan was simple enough: stick their pal in an office chair, wheel him round the corner to the Pay-O-Matic at 763 Ninth Avenue and leave him on the sidewalk while they cashed the $355 (£180) cheque.
“Hell’s Kitchen has a rich history but this is one for the books,” police spokesman Paul Browne told the New York Times.
“The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up.” he explained.
They went in leaving Clintron’s body in front of the store. When clerk, who knew Clintron asked them where he was, Dalaia and O’Hare told the clerk they would go and get him.
By this time detective Travis Rapp who was at the restaurant next door noticed a crowd forming around Clintron’s body. He went to investigate, Browne said, and it was “immediately apparent to him that Cintron [was] dead“.
He alerted the Midtown North station house, and when police and an ambulance arrived they found the two perps “trying to maneuver the corpse and chair into the check-cashing office“.
Cintron’s body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner’s office told police it appeared Cintron, 66, had died from natural causes within previous 24 hours.
Dalaia and O’Hare, both 65, were being held by police and faced cheque fraud charges.
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