Saturday, December 22, 2012
Woman's checks are stolen before she knows she has them, but thanks to an alert banker and a neighbor who puts right above friendship, she keeps her money, and a suspect faces all the charges he deserves.
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- Jim Price
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
A banker, a neighbor and two police departments put it together to catch a thief and help out a Wauwatosa woman, police reports say. She was driving home Monday afternoon when she got a call from her new bank, the Associated Bank branch at North 59th Street and West North Avenue in Milwaukee, where she had just recently opened a checking account. "Have you received your first box of checks yet?" the banker wanted to know. "No, I haven't," she said. "Why?" "Well, there's someone here trying to cash one of them for $1,000." The woman was taken aback, of course, and told her banker that by no means had she written a check to anyone – couldn't have. The bank staff stalled the man and called Milwaukee police, who arrived to question him. He …
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Defendant allegedly went to pharmacy to commit a crime while also carrying pot and a wad of counterfeit cash.
A 24-year-old Milwaukee man is facing charges after he allegedly tried passing a forged prescription for Oxycodone at a Wauwatosa pharmacy. He was also holding marijuana at the time and was later found to have hidden $130 in counterfeit money in the store before being taken into custody. Adam E. Cashion was charged Tuesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with one count of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation and one count of possession of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. If convicted, he faces up to 6½ years in prison and $11,000 in fines. No charges have been filed for the counterfeit cash. According to the criminal complaint: Police were called to the pharmacy in Pick ‘n Save, 6950 W. State St., on May 7 after …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Woman is accused of cashing three checks she stole from a West Allis man at a Wauwatosa bank.
A 43-year-old Shorewood woman is facing charges after she allegedly stole checks from a West Allis man and cashed two of them at a Wauwatosa bank. Sandra Tyner was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with two counts of forgery. If convicted, she faces up to 12 years in prison and $20,000 in fines. According to police reports and the criminal complaint: At 2:30 a.m. May 3, the victim left a tavern near his home in the 1000 block of South 61st Street, West Allis, where he met Tyner and had a “friendly conversation” before inviting her back to his house. Tyner stayed at his home until 8 a.m., then left. Two days later, the man discovered he was missing $200 from his bank account and two checks had been cashed at U.S. Bank, inside Pick '…
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Woman passes stolen checks
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Businesses are advised to take extra steps to scrutinize large bills during rash of forgery.
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- Jim Price
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Police are advising area business owners and managers to tell their staffs to take a harder look when a customer offers a large bill in payment – especially when it's a $100 bill for a purchase of just a few dollars. Counterfeiters are using a method that breaks through the first two lines of defense: the feel of the paper, and a sensing pen used by many businesses that detects a marker in real scrip paper and tells you it is a genuine piece of currency. The trouble lately, said Lt. Dennis Davidson of the Wauwatosa Police Detective Bureau, is that it is real money, but it isn't a real 100. "It's all about the Benjamins," Davidson said. "There are other methods being used, too, but the main problem is the bleached $5 bills altered to look …
Alfred
11:44 pm on Monday, May 14, 2012
Yes Jim, she is sick. She is an addict with a horrible disease and will be prosecuted and found guilty if this is true...so why do you feel the need to humiliate her and her family? Should we post pictures of mentally ill folks who commit crimes? I think it is in poor taste, is tabloid and is cruel and not necessary. more ›