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Woman Forges $1,500 Check, Tries to Do It Again: Police

After allegedly cashing one phony check in Bloomfield Township, suspect tried it again in Oakland Township, police said.

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BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI – A Pontiac woman accused of cashing one phony check and attempting to cash another was arraigned in 48th District Court Thursday on a forgery charge, police said.

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Julia Trenda, 23, of Pontiac, cashed a $1,500 check at Comerica Bank, 433332 Woodward Ave., on Feb. 23, the Bloomfield Township Police Department said in a news release.

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The check supposedly made out to her by an area senior center was written on a Huntington Bank account, police said.

After she received the cash from the check, supposedly written by an area senior center on a Huntington Bank account, Trenda ran from the bank and drove away in a dark vehicle, according to the release.

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Police said bank employees later determined that the account number wasn’t legitimate and the senior center doesn’t have a Huntington account.

Trenda was arrested later that day by Oakland County Sheriff’s Office deputies after she attempted to cash a forged check at a bank in Oakland Township, according to police.

Trenda’s bond on one charge of Uttering and Publishing was set at $5,000, and her next court date is on May 16.

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