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Police: Man Creates and Attempts to Cash Bogus Check
The following information was supplied by the Watkinsville, Ga. police department. An arrest doesn't mean a conviction.
An Atlanta man has been charged with forgery in the first degree after police say he fabricated a check and attempted to cash it at a Watkinsville bank.
According to a news release from Police Chief Lee O'Dillon, an alert teller on March 19 notified police that a man was at Oconee State Bank on Main Street attempting to cash a bogus check. Police arrived and took Kareem Donelle Dixon, 32, of Atlanta into custody, he said.
Dixon is accused of creating a fake check in the amount of $1,593 written on an Oconee County business and presenting it for payment at the bank.
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Police verified that the business owner was not familiar with Dixon and that the check had not been issued by the company.
Dixon was booked into the Oconee County Jail to await bond.
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