at 3:45 p.m. on a Tuesday officers were dispatched to a pawn shop regarding a woman suspected of attempting to cash a fake check these are the events that followed so what she what's going on she's trying to cash $24,000 counterfeit check help me out you guys do this how did you know this was I've got the real I've got the original back there but we can show you an actual check and the one she brought in all the water marks everything are showing up like it's a copy the qid scan doesn't work nothing about okay hello what's this I had received check in the mail and it was supposed to be a payback out from my back page for what unemployment you were expecting a check for almost $24,000 I wasn't not really were you expecting a check at all I knew I was supposed to be getting a check but I didn't think it was supposed to been that much okay how did you get here H how did you get here I drove is the car outside yours no I had drove well I actually got dropped off but I drove myself here but the person I was with had left because we was supposed to be going to go pick up my kids after school okay what car did you show up in it was why did they leave because we was running late picking up my kids from school all right so why didn't you go pick up your kids from school then because I had told them I was coming back about 5:00 well before then okay IOU something I mean this they're saying this is a fraudulent check I don't know I don't know any difference where'd you work at before I used to work for the state at Florida State Hospital a while back ago how long ago like 2018 2019 2018 2019 okay have you worked since um after I had my kids I was out for like a year year and a half okay and then I end up going to uh Juvenile Facility did you ever file for unemployment I did one time before when it was like around Co time so when exactly I had the wrong number I really don't honestly remember but during Co like when Co originally started so like 2020 probably yeah okay and since the state did you work anywhere else after where else did you work no like I went back to the state one time but then once like they Co rate had struck again I then I had end up leaving again MH but I had never like when I applied for unemployment I never end up receiving it how' you PL for it online okay and who who was it through oh um I think it was through the unemployment office I'm not sure this was my first time ever like applying for unemployment did you ever get you ever get an email back or anything um let me see so when did you get this in the mail um it was like I want to say almost a week ago but I wasn't never able to cash it because I didn't have my ID on me so then that's when eventually I had finally got up to day and I was like well I got time to go get idea so let me go ahead and try to go get everything situated and settled where did you say the check came through again it was supposed to came from the but like even like before I had received that check like I had spoken to anyone like recently where was your ID you said you didn't have your ID when when you had you got the check I had end up getting my license took by Florida Highway Patrol and I never end up going to go replace them or anything you got a new ID today is that what you're saying yeah okay because he told me that I couldn't use my picture ID and like that's what I have been using who told you you couldn't um the dude in there when was that this morning so you went today by walking to DMV we get another one mhm hold on this morning what did you bring in here I had a picture ID on my phone why did they take your license or ID because it was suspended at the time when I had got pulled and you never got when did it stop being suspended like when was it valid again um it's in the process of being valid again if I understood you correctly you said that you haven't you haven't cashed this check for about a week because you because no I didn't cash this check for about a week because of my work schedule but today being that I'm kind of free I had came in this morning and I tried to use my photo ID on my phone but he told me I couldn't use my photo ID on my phone so that's when I had went and got the hard copy of it okay what what's going on we're here you're here the check's here what give me tell me tell me what happened basically okay I received a check in the mail that was supposed to be for back when you re it last week where at your house yes okay so I haven't been staying home un SCH and I called my aunt and I was asking her like hey have I got any mail this thir she was like yeah you know you got a couple your aunt stays with you yes I stay while I stay with my okay yeah all right so she was like that I had a few pieces of meal in this third so I had went to go pick it up okay so after that that's when um I noticed that the check had came okay so I was like oh well you know so last week when I picked it up I never end up cashing it because due to my R schedule I always got off R late okay and so then after that that's when I had um came in today because I was off and to cash a check and when I tried to use my photo ID on my phone they was like no I need a physical ID so I had went and got a physical ID okay and this happened so that check was for what for unemployment okay have you ever gotten unemployment before no I applied once but like I never received anything never heard anything goes back so it was just like so this is the first time you've ever done unemployment filed for it or anything like that you've never received checks before for unemployment or anything this is the first one yes okay um and when did you receive it last week okay where's the envelope that that came in do you have it it was supposed to been up front if they didn't move it okay um do you remember who it came from what was on the envelope it was like it was a blank envelope with a clear slip and it was a paper in front of it and then like when you unfold it it was like the check the rest of the well you know how like you rip off a check mm that's how it was okay all right um have you ever received Department of Treasury checks before for anything no okay um has anyone else seen that check have you talked to anyone else about that check no okay um and just and the reason for you waiting about a week to come in and cash it well because I don't get up till 6 o00 so it's like by the time I make it back this way it's 7 o' so everything is I got you almost Clos I got can ask me a question back when you worked for the Florida State Hospital what was your salary um back then I was making like 15 something because I was Ops I was making a little bit more than the Reg 15 hour 15 hour you work for like six to seven months yeah but and we was working like sometimes we'll do 16 sometimes we'll double on or we can come in okay when you filed for an employment how' you do it what site did you go to um I can I pull up on my email yeah you got something you got there what did you receive did you get like an email after you applied did you receive anything I had basically received uh letter saying that I had to submit some more um information in but that was only thing it once I had submitted everything that was it did you submit the paperwork yes okay how do that I did it online like at the time I was doing everything online but how I had like knew to do like the unemployment stuff my friend was telling me about it so she did you ever receive an approval or a denial from them for unemployment I basically I really didn't too much to hear nothing else and then it was like I hadn't started doing hair so it was like I wasn't really too focused on it that was probably around like 2019 you did that yeah okay so it's now 2023 never received anything back from them and all of a sudden you get a envelope in the mail plain wide envelope in the mail with a treasury check inside it for $244,000 doeses that seem to make sense to you it it it was like it was a what because it was like I considered throwing it away but then again I was like what if this actually like this my back pay that they owed me so it was just like for six to seven months that you worked and you made $15 an hour I wouldn't say it was 6 s month because it was like I work and then I left and then I end up going back to work there so it was just like who do you bank with I was banking with ch not bank with a bank called goto Bank okay what what is that is that a it's a mobile banking app it's a mobile Bank okay so did you attempt to cash that check at your bank deposited at your bank I didn't only because I don't have a physical card for that account and [ __ ] I had to reorder one what do you mean like a debit card yes so they require you to have a debit card in order for you I didn't want to cash it into the account and then I wasn't able to use it due to I didn't have a physical debit card okay all right oh so you didn't put it in your bank because you wouldn't have a card to be able to utilize the money yeah like even with my job my direct deposits I had to stop holding on my direct deposits due to I didn't I don't have a c to use my card at the moment so my job have to give me a cash check a CH okay there's not really anything about this is not fishy you know what I mean none of this make sense all right um we're asking you questions because we're trying to gauge where you're at as far as what you're going to tell us and how truthfully you're going to be but I'm going tell you right now not a darn thing that's come out of your mouth has made any sense okay 2019 you applied for unemployment is that what you said no it wasn't I would even say it was 2019 I want to say it was 2020 well first originally you got 2018 I'm I'm going to say 2020 because I had my kids in 2019 I started record for the state a little after that okay so let's say it's 2020 okay it's three years later okay it's 202 almost 2024 and you receive a check for supposedly what you applied for three years prior okay um and I'm going tell you right now unemployment doesn't give lump checks okay um unemployment is a payment as if you were working okay and those checks don't come from the treasury okay no but I'm letting you know that I know that well okay that's what I'm saying I don't know that like I never receive unemployment I never got a check from treasury or anything so this is like my first time actually receiving something like this I I promise just just so you know for four years I did fraudulent investigations for the Department I saw stuff like this all the time and I and I'll tell you right now the reason we're asking is he saying we're gauging how truthful you're going to be I'll tell you right now this is your chance to be honest because I know exactly what's going on um I can call it exactly like I have seen it every other time before somehow someone came in contact with you a male probably the male that's sitting in your car out there in the passenger seat the black Chevy Malibu and that person convinced you that you need to go in here and you need to cash this check and then payment would be to receive a portion of that check while they get the other you being a single mom I don't know if you're getting paid a lot right now I'm not going to worry about that but you would get a portion of that money and they would get the rest and all you had to do was go in here show your ID and here you go and this is what you got to say and these people will buy it and I say that because I recently arrested someone not too long ago for the same similar type of thing here so with that being said we already know the person out in the car because I don't know if you know this or not but this place has video cameras so they come or I'm sorry you come here and they see exactly what cars you come in and out of and they see what cars come at the same time that you come right well that car was here earlier with you right so it's odd that it's back now and there's a guy that's just been sitting there waiting well actually in the pastor seat now my my question is is did this guy contact you through like Instagram or Facebook or what and what did he promise you because and maybe he told you that yes this is this is legit and you know this is what it is but I'm telling you right now I know you're full of it um they try to do this whole thing all the time with people were like here this is this is what it is this is what you're going to tell them that way it sounds legit or tries to sound legit the problem is is that treasury check first off it's fake as heck there's there's nothing about that check that's even remotely real you wouldn't get a check from the treasur anyway that comes in a blank envelope in the mail three years later and then you claim it's unemployment so you can sit here and tell us all day long that this is what you believe it is or this is what you think it is or whatever story they concocted for you but ultimately you need to tell us who the person is out there how they contact you and everything else and maybe we can help you out I'm not promising we can but this is your chance to be honest because I'm telling you right now I already know you're lying I'm going to be completely honest with you the person that's in the car that's my little he's a minor okay he's 17 he hasely to do with this okay that's I'm I promise you I'm completely okay number two the check that came in the mail basically my friend helped me apply for unemployment she told me basically like you go on this website you do such and such such and that was it but being that I never received anything I'm being completely honest with you I promise you I am being that I never received anything it was just like I didn't worry about it no more so so you're going to stick with that that k came in the mail that's what you're sticking with cuz I'm going tell you right now we're getting to a point where there's there's going to be a line and once we meet that line of our patience with this there's going to be no going back and helping you without you being completely 100% honest with us I don't want that to happen for you he doesn't want that to happen for you but that's where it's headed I can hear you my friend information they help me do everything but you can't you can't show us anything about anything that you applied for any website any email nothing that said you're ever going to get money back which doesn't make sense you get it back from the treasury anyway the Big lum sum of $24,000 three years later after you file for unemployment that makes there's going to be they're not just going to send you a check without some sort of notification especially for that amount and with unemployment you get approved or you get denied I've done unemployment before back in the day you get approved you get denied but it's all notifications to your email in the mail you have documentation for everything because that's that's a government entity and they have to keep records of everything and you get notifications of every decision that they make but you can't show us one piece of documentation that's what I'm saying to you I didn't do everything by myself my friend help I can give my friend information I can give you her name who helped me with it everything I just I don't I don't want to I just really make to my kids I can give you all the cont your friend yes what are they going to they're going to tell me oh yeah I helped her follow for unemployment that doesn't help what is that going to do I don't I don't know I tell you what I tell you what give me your friends information while we're here with you we're going to call her we're GNA see what she says so you finished high school complet us some college that means you're not stupid but you want me to you want me to expect to believe that that this was from an unemployment Tri it's amazing like I said I've done this for a long time I did this for four years all kinds of stuff the only thing that ever changed was the names of the people that did it that's it it's the only ever changed I promise you this my first time because I can look that that check right there and I can tell that that is beyond fake it's laughable the number that's on here mhm there's a reference number on here M the f941 has to do with payroll taxes not unemployment and the fact that you think that you would get a check for $224,000 basically after three years is ridiculous so I know you're sitting here thinking that we're buying it but we're not no I'm not I'm not I'm just honestly um say off of what we have here okay you're under arrest can I call um who do you want to call let's go ahead and get you handcuff first we'll call she was charged with passing a counterfeit instrument in larsy totaling between 20,000 and $100,000 her bond was set at $27,500 she was sentenced to two years of probation 16 days in jail and fines totaling $668 thanks for 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