Evangelos Drosos
Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced the arrest of 50-year-old EVANGELOS DROSOS of Glen Rock, NJ, on charges of money laundering and theft by deception. The arrest is the result of an investigation conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office under the direction of Chief Matthew Finck.
In August of 2024, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Financial Crimes Unit received information regarding an alleged financial scheme. Detectives initiated a months-long investigation that revealed EVANGELOS DROSOS engaged in a check-kiting pattern where he generated self-issued checks from accounts under his control at several institutions and then deposited those checks into multiple accounts at a different financial institution while knowing that the issuing accounts did not have funds to cover the checks. DROSOS then abused the provisional credit by rapidly withdrawing the non-existent funds, resulting in the theft of approximately $496,788.88. This pattern of transactions occurred continuously over a period of three weeks.
As a result of the investigation, EVANGELOS DROSOS was arrested on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Paramus, NJ and charged with second-degree theft by deception, N.J.S.A. 2C:20-4a and second-degree money laundering, N.J.S.A. 2C:21-25b(1). DROSOS was remanded to the Bergen County Jail pending a first appearance in Bergen County Superior Court in Hackensack, NJ.
Prosecutor Musella states that the charges are merely accusations, and that the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutor Musella thanks the Glen Rock Police Department for its assistance in this investigation.
