Staff Reports
MOULTRIE — A 77-year-old man tried to cash a fraudulent check for a fake jackpot at Bank of America Wednesday.
Apparently a victim of fraud, the man had received a check from sender Talbots Accounts Payable Expense of Hingham, Mass. Fleet Bank of Portland, Maine, was printed on the fraudulent check. Atlantic Investment Group of Vancouver, Wash., is the group stated to be funding the check, police reports said.
A letter to the elderly man said he won the “Prize America Jackpot” in a “lump sum” of $100,000, but to claim his prize he had to pay the sender more than $2,000 in legal and administrative fees by money gram wire transfer or Western Union, Moultrie Police Capt. Tommy Rabon said.
“It’s all just a scam. That’s all it is,” Rabon said.
The man became upset with bank tellers for not returning the check, reports said, but Bank of America policy mandates that all fraudulent checks must be sent to the security department.
Other mail scams circulating recently claim that the recipient has inherited money from long lost relatives, but the catch is the same — the recipient must send money to process the claim. Sadly, Rabon said, gullible people fall prey to the con.
Other incidents
• Parents of a 14-year-old girl, who had been previously reported a runaway, reported to police that while their daughter was in the area of Forrest Hill, she had sexual intercourse with three male subjects, two believed to be over the age of 17. The girl was bleeding, the mother reported, and the father insisted on a sexual assault test on the girl, reports said. The girl told police, however, that the sex was consensual, reports said.
• Shirley Kinnett, manager of Crossroads Mission, reported that someone entered the day room and stole a 27-inch television valued at $250 this week.
• Mattie Allen, Eighth Street Southwest, reported that someone this week wrecked an outdoors Christmas display and damaged her gray 2006 Nissan Altima.
• Jackie Reese, 26th Avenue Southeast, reported that Thursday she arrived home to find her door broken open and $480 worth of items stolen. Stolen items included three pairs of Size 9 Jordan brand shoes and a red purse.
• Lisa Guinn, 32, 15th Street Southeast, reported to police that a male friend grabbed her by the neck during an argument Wednesday. Both lost their balance and fell to the ground at which point Guinn hit her head on a metal chair, police reports said.
• Jackie Powell, Seventh Street Northwest, reported to police that someone slashed the passenger side rear tire of her 1983 cream Buick Regal at her residence Wednesday.
• Rodney Lewis, Lewis Road, reported to the sheriff’s office that his Savage pump rifle was stolen from his pickup truck earlier this week.
• John Swiley, Honey Bear Road, Norman Park, reported to deputies that on Thursday his wife slapped him.
• Tara Marie Henry, West Mulberry Street, Funston, reported to deputies that a male friend had sent a series of text calls to her beginning with threatening sexual acts and escalating to death threats, including that he would burn down her house with her babies inside, reports said.
Arrests
• Cardin Pierre Shannon, 64, 605 Jefferson St., was charged Thursday with simple battery for allegedly slamming his wife’s hand in a drawer, causing it to bleed, police reports said.
• Craig Dewayne Gandy, 19, 1200 13th St. S.W., was charged Wednesday with probation violation, resisting arrest and violation of duty to obey.
• James Lee Walker Jr., 26, 222 Pebble Hill, was charged Thursday with battery, criminal trespass, theft by shoplifting and interference with government property.
• Leonard Arthur Johnson, 33, 316 Ninth St. S.W., was charged Thursday with improper tag and theft by receiving stolen property.
• Valdez Rabul Jr., 23, 1605 Old Camilla Highway, was charged Thursday with terroristic threats and acts.
