🌱 How Poteau police helped crack a multi-state bank fraud scheme

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• How Poteau police helped crack a multi-state bank fraud scheme

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📰 News we're reading

• Three Honduran Nationals Sentenced to Prison for Their Roles in a Bank Fraud Conspiracy (regionnewssource.org) — Poteau residents should know their local police department played a supporting role in a multi-state investigation that helped send three Honduran nationals to federal prison for a large bank fraud scheme. The conspiracy targeted banks and small businesses in Indiana and Oklahoma using hundreds of fake paychecks, and investigators from Poteau joined federal, state, and other local agencies to track the suspects and secure convictions.
   

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