DECATUR COUNTY, Ind. — A Westport woman was arrested on several charges after police say she stole two personal checks, then fraudulently endorsed them and cashed them.
Kelly R. Newhart, 31, Westport was arrested Monday on a warrant that was issued from a criminal case that began back in September.
Police say a woman called the Decatur County Sheriff’s Department stating that a signed personal check of hers had been stolen.
During the investigation, police discovered that the check had been cashed 2 weeks earlier.
A second stolen check was reported by a man that told investigators that a personal check was taken out of a book from his residence.
Police say Newhart cashed the second check at a local bank’s drive-thru.
Newhart was arrested on charges of fraud on a financial institution, synthetic identic deception, and 2 counts of theft in Decatur County, and also faces a charge of theft in Bartholomew County, and forgery with intent to defraud and theft in Rush County.
