Hungry For A Check?

A counterfeit check bust led to the arrests of three people, and the discovery that several hundred thousand dollars was stolen using that account number.

Satsuma Police have arrested Darrell Walker, Kenyonna Jackson, and Dimisha Dix, all of Atlanta.

Satsuma Police Chief Chris McLean said it all started earlier this month at the Pilot Convenience Store along I-65, when a store clerk said, Dimisha Dix, seen in surveillance video, tried to cash a counterfeit check.

McLean said, "This is the actual one that Ms. Dix signed, and tried to cash inside the store."

Police said store officials said they had been on the lookout for counterfeit Visa travelers checks because Darrell Walker, who police said was also seen in the surveillance video, had cashed fake ones twice in the past, so, store workers were on to Dix when she tried to cash fake checks that had the same account number as Walker's.

In fact, police said Walker and Kenyonna Jackson were waiting outside in a car, when Dix went in the store to cash the check.

McLean said, "Once they observed that there was obviously an issue, and that the cashier was not accepting the travelers check, they left her there and fled and hid behind the Chevron. That's when one of our officers located the vehicle behind there."

He said when police approached the suspects car, Walker tried to get rid of one of the checks.

McLean said, "Once he approached the vehicle, he observed the male party, Mr. Walker, was attempting to eat one of the counterfeit travelers checks."

He said when police searched the car, they found 43 other fake checks.

An investigation found that, in the past five years, more than $560,000 dollars had been stolen using that same fake Visa checking account number.

McLean said, "The amount of money that you're talking about, over the span of several years, is quite amazing. I've never seen anything quite like that."

And as for Walkers appetite, when asked how unusual is it to have someone try to eat evidence, McLean said, "Not unusual at all. It happens quite often, on a lot of different type of cases."

All three were charged with second degree possession of a forged instrument.