A 29-year-old man faces a number of felony charges after allegedly cashing and attempting to cash forged checks that had no money in its account.
Ezekiel John Whalen is accused of forging checks he claimed to have found in the new house he moved into.
According to Superior Court documents, Whalen first cashed a check at Rustan Foreign Exchange on Sept. 5 in the amount of $360 payable to him on a First Hawaiian Bank check on the account of OMG Material Center.
The establishment learned that the account had no money in it. Whalen returned the same day in an attempt to cash a check for $470 from the same account but was refused.
Whalen then went next door to Valencia Foreign Exchange and was able to cash the check for $470. It wasn't until Whalen left Valencia Foreign Exchange that the establishment was warned about Whalen.
Whalen was apprehended the following day when he attempted to cash a third check in the amount of $640 at the same foreign exchange.
“The exchange refused the check and called the police,” court documents indicted. “Whalen told police that he threw away the fourth check.”
Whalen was charged Saturday in Superior Court with attempted theft by deception as a third degree felony; theft by deception as a third degree felony; attempted issuance of a dishonored check as a third degree felony; issuance of a dishonored check as a misdemeanor; and three counts of forgery as a misdemeanor.
Man arrested for forging and cashing bad checks
- Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012 03:30am
- BY GERALDINE CASTILLO | VARIETY NEWS STAFF
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