Potsdam couple charged with welfare fraud

CANTON — A Potsdam couple is accused of receiving $104,356 in day care funds they were not entitled to from the St. Lawrence County Department of Social Services.

Scott Turner, 38, and his wife, Sonya, 28, were each charged Thursday with second-degree welfare fraud and three counts of lying on the application to receive the benefits, St. Lawrence County district attorney investigators said.

The couple allegedly received the payments from 2006 to 2009.

Both were arraigned in Town Court before Judge William J. Galvin and released under probation supervision.