Woman deposits $25K in forged checks into bank account: Police

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police in Tennessee say a woman deposited $25,000 worth of forged checks into her First Horizon account and then transferred the fraudulent funds to a Cash App account before the bank figured it out.

Roshell Perkins, 27, was booked in the Shelby County Jail in Memphis this week on charges of forgery and theft of $10,000 to $60,000.

Bank investigators said four fraudulent checks from three different businesses were deposited into Perkins’ bank account between June 18 and July 1.

Among them were two checks totaling nearly $6,000 from Jackson Christian School in Jackson, Tennessee, and a $4,163 check from Forsyth Rooter Service in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

The various businesses told police the checks were initially made out to other vendors and that they had no idea how Perkins got her hands on them.

“We noticed our vendor hadn’t been paid, and that’s when we got the bank to send us a copy, and that’s when we found it wasn’t made out to our vendor,” said a Forsyth Rooter Service employee.

Police said the stolen checks were all made out to Perkins. The victims told investigators Perkins had never worked for them and that they didn’t know who she was.

Detectives said the bank gave them a statement showing the deposit of the forged checks and the transfer of the funds via the Cash App.

Perkins was released from jail Tuesday on a $7,500 bond.

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