Crime & Safety
Gift Basket Seller Paid With $270 Bad Check
Inside the Police Reports: The victim initially thought the check had been forged, but a police officer found out the real story.
A woman in unincorporated Stone Mountain in Gwinnett county told police she sold gift baskets for $270 to a person who paid with a bad check on March 27.
When the victim took the personal check, from a Best Bank account, to be cashed, she was informed by a bank employee that it was not good, the report states.
The victim thought the check was forged. The Gwinnett county officer she met with took the check to a Best Bank on Five Forks Trickum Road and was told by an employee that the it was a real check, but the account didn't have available funds and had been closed.
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The officer returned the check to the victim and told her about taking the issue to the magistrate courts.
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