Woman To Pay Over $4000 For Cashing Stolen Checks
A Cooks Hill resident faces imprisonment if she fails to pay more than $4,000 in court-ordered restitution stemming from a 2022 check fraud scheme.
The High Court sentenced Jahmalier Grant yesterday after she admitted to three counts of obtaining money through forged instruments. Grant must now pay $2,300 in compensation by mid-December and an additional $2,000 fine by January’s end, or spend six months in jail.
Court proceedings revealed that Grant defrauded a wholesale company of $2,300 in total through three separate transactions in September 2022, cashing checks valued at $900, $500, and $900.
The checks originated from a burglary at a private residence where a checkbook was stolen. While Grant initially told authorities that an unidentified young man had given her the checks to cash, she ultimately confessed to forging the documents herself.
Two of the fraudulent transactions occurred on Lower Market Street on September 7, 2022, with the third taking place two days later. All three checks bore the forged signature of the same individual.
Grant, a mother of three, entered not guilty pleas to six related forgery charges, which prosecutors accepted. She pleaded guilty to the obtaining charges last month.
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