LIBERTY, NY — New York State Police at Liberty arrested Grace Belmont, age 31, of Napanoch after an investigation conducted in conjunction with the Sullivan County Welfare Fraud Unit. The arrest took place on January 8. The investigation determined that Belmont applied for and received benefits from the Sullivan County Department of Health and Family Services that she was not entitled to. These benefits totaled more than $10,000.

Belmont was charged with grand larceny, welfare fraud in the third degree and offering a false instrument, all of which are felonies. She was arraigned in the Town of Liberty Court and remanded to the Sullivan County Jail in lieu of $2,500 cash bail.