Tuesday, December 8, 2020

State Police Investigating Forged Check near Ringtown

The Pennsylvania State at Frackville are investigating an incident where someone forged their name on a check and cost a woman thousands of dollars.

According to Troopers, between November 23rd, 2020 and December 3rd, 2020, a woman who resides on Zion Grove Road in Union Township, near Ringtown wrote a PSECU check for $7.99 as a payment for a Kohl's Department Store card and put it in her mailbox to be picked up by the mailman.

On December 4th, 2020 the woman checked her bank statement and found that the checked payed out $3,800.

An investigation found that the check had been altered paying out the $3,800 to an individual unknown to the victim.

The investigation is ongoing.