Revealed April 11, 2013 Associated Press KEY ISLIP, N.Y. a AA Long Island girl faked cancer and sought contributions from store consumers and others to guide her heroin habit, an indictment unsealed Wednesday so-called, and a prosecutor called the plot "a wretched scam." Brittany Ozarowski, 21, formerly of Selden, was billed in Suffolk County with 24 matters including grand larceny in the 3rd stage. Prosecutors said Ozarowski remaining donor containers at Nassau and Suffolk county organizations and struck up store buyers for the money. She also conned her grandmother and father, who sold her home and offered Ozarowski more than $100,000, District Attorney Thomas Spota said. A despicable scam was perpetrated by "this defendant. ... There was no cancer, no chemotherapy or radiation. All there was was heroin and more heroin," he said. Ozarowski's lawyer George Duncan said Wednesday he'd not yet seen the charges and could not comment. Spota said small-business owners contributed a lot more than $600 in present certificates and Ozarowski founded a PayPal account and an internet site with a that pleaded, "Help Save My Life." "She told companies that she was suffering from brain and bone cancer, that the illness was spreading to her thyroid and her stomach," Spota said at a news conference. "She told some individuals that she just learned mental performance cancer was inoperable." Spota said Ozarowski was sooner or later found each time a man she had asked for cash became suspicious and asked for her doctor's name, which she refused to supply. The person called the district attorney's office.
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