NATIONAL BRIEFING / AND FINALLY . . .
If you’re going to buy something with a forged cashier’s check, don’t misspell “cashier’s” or use an FBI office as your shipping address.
Police in Monroe, La., say they arrested a 44-year-old man from Memphis, Tenn., after he did both. He was held Friday on two counts of forgery and as a fugitive from justice in Georgia, where he is accused of a similar scheme.
The FBI called police Thursday after a Minnesota cellphone distributor called the bureau.
The firm had sent 50 phones to the address for the FBI office in Monroe, only to discover the buyer’s $2,359.45 payment was a “cahier’s check.”
FBI agents saw the suspect wave down a delivery truck driver outside the bureau. They were able to stop the transaction and waited for police to arrest the suspect.
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