Man tries to cash forged check for one million dollars at a bank's drive-through window Tuesday, July 27, 2010 By Anna Rochelle, Staff Writer Justin C. Johnson
A rural Bloomfield man who went to the drive-through window of the Eastern Heights branch of the Bloomfield State Bank early Friday morning, and tried to cash a check for one million dollars, didn't drive off with any cash.
Later the same day, Lt. Bryan Woodall of the Greene County Sheriff's Department gave the man a ride to the county jail.
Justin S. Johnson, 21, who resides in Lawrence Hollow Estates, appeared in Greene Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon and was charged with one count of forgery, a class C felony.
A call came in to the sheriff's department from the bank around 8:45 a.m. on Friday. The complaint was that Johnson was attempting to cash a check for one million dollars by handing the check through the window to a teller.
Lt. Woodall was dispatched and spoke with the teller who said it was not a valid check and she did not cash it. Woodall said the teller kept the check. And she obtained Johnson's driver's license and made a copy of it before Johnson left.
The deputy located Johnson at his residence.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Johnson said a blank check was given to him the day before by a man he had done some work for.
Johnson allegedly filled the check out, knowing it was not supposed to be written for one million dollars, signed the man's name and attempted to cash it.
The check was written on an account at Hoosier Hills Credit Union located in Bedford, in the name of a company located in Bloomington.
Johnson's bond has been set at $10,000 according to the standard bond schedule.
