Two Greenwich police officers have made 117 combined arrests through Oct. 7, the department announced Wednesday. Officers Jack Livingston and Alex DeLuca were named the Greenwich Police Department's Officers of the Month.

The officers made 17 custodial arrests during July involving payment card fraud, larceny, identity theft, impersonation and other financial crimes, according to the department’s announcement. They also completed three additional arrest warrants for suspects who had not been apprehended during the original incidents.

During July, Livingston and DeLuca worked in the Organized Retail Crime Abatement, or ORCA, unit. The department’s ORCA webpage describes it as a specialized plainclothes detail that has operated since 2020, targeting fraud, larceny, identity theft and other crimes in Greenwich’s central business district.

One investigation began when the officers observed suspicious ATM activity. The case led to two arrests and the seizure of approximately $18,000 in cash and jewelry valued at $240,000 through asset forfeiture proceedings, police said.

Subsequent search warrants uncovered information related to more than 300 stolen payment cards and numerous victims. The cards were allegedly used to fraudulently obtain more than $80,000 in cash over three months, according to the department. The investigation resulted in additional arrest warrants for both suspects.

A separate investigation into suspected credit card fraud and organized retail theft resulted in four arrests and the seizure of nearly $7,000 through asset forfeiture proceedings. The department said the suspected ringleader was under investigation by the New York Police Department’s Financial Crimes Task Force.

Information from another investigation was shared with the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations. The department said that information would also be incorporated into training through the Fairfield County Detective Conference.

Through relationships with local loss prevention professionals, Livingston and DeLuca also identified people associated with an organized theft group suspected of fraud and larceny across multiple states. Intelligence from those investigations was shared with at least a dozen other jurisdictions, Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to help identify suspects, police said.

Their July work also included a shoplifting arrest later linked to an organized theft group and the recovery of a stolen van following a license plate reader alert.

Prosecutors at Stamford Superior Court invited the officers to present their investigations during an in-service training session, according to the department.

Residents can report suspected payment card fraud or organized retail crime through the Greenwich Police Department’s nonemergency line at 203-622-8004.