Two men were arrested yesterday for allegedly wheeling their friend’s dead body in a chair from a Manhattan apartment to a check cashing store nearby.

Police say David Dalaia and James O’Hare, both 65, put Virgilio Cintron’s lifeless body in a chair, then wheeled it from the apartment O’Hare shared with Cintron, 66, in Hell’s Kitchen, to a Pay-O-Matic nearby on 9th Avenue between 51st and 52nd Street.

Investigators say the men then tried to cash the dead man’s $355 Social Security check. A detective having lunch nearby noticed a crowd and went to investigate.

Witnesses told police that Cintron’s body was flopping from side to side as the two men tried to prop him up.

“Sometime after 3 o’clock, I was at the bar and I saw these two guys pushing what looked like a wheelchair. And a few minutes later, I saw the ambulance come in, and there was this guy sitting on a chair in front of the check cashing place, and apparently, he was dead.”

The two men face a check fraud charge. The medical examiner’s office says it appears Cintron died of natural causes in the last couple of days.

Source: Whatspoppin.net

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