Maple Grove Woman Charged with Check Forgery

A Maple Grove woman has been charged with using a forged check to get thousands of dollars from an Eden Prairie bank.

Sarah Lynn Dreyling, 19, is charged with offering a forged check, a felony with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint, signed by Eden Prairie Police Detective Dean Corder, an employee of Beacon Bank in Eden Prairie called police on April 9 and reported that Dreyling had come into the bank on March 14 and asked to close a joint checking account and open a new single account.

The employee told police that Dreyling deposited a $4,000 check into her new account the next day. The check was drawn on a Wells Fargo account, the employee said.

On March 17, Dreyling withdrew $4,000 from the new account. Beacon Bank employees were notified March 19 by Wells Fargo employees that they were unable to locate the account number listed on the check.

Beacon Bank employees tried unsuccessfully to contact Dreyling, the complaint says. On April 27, police were notified that Dreyling was at the bank; when they arrived, they met with Dreyling and two employees.

Dreyling admitted to police that she had forged the check, telling them she was “short on money” and that a friend had told her how to “get money” using that method, according to Corder’s account in the complaint.

Dreyling is free on her promise to make all future court appearances. An omnibus hearing in her case is scheduled June 13 in Hennepin County District Court.