Crime & Safety
$40,000 Bank Fraud Gets Bedford Man 6 Years In Prison
The man would get bank routing numbers for different businesses and use that information to make counterfeit checks.
BEDFORD, OH — A Bedford man will spend the next six years in prison after he was found guilty of defrauding banks out of more than $40,000. Jasaun Mattice, 35, used counterfeit checks to rip off the banks.
U.S. District Judge Donald Nugent sentenced the 35-year-old to six years in prison after he pleaded guilty to 44 counts of bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and other crimes. Mattice received 79 months in prison.
Mattice would get check routing numbers from different businesses, and for individual bank accounts, and then use that information to create counterfeit checks. He would then make the checks payable to himself or to businesses he controlled.
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He was caught after an investigation by the Cleveland branch of the FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michelle Baeppler and James Lewis prosecuted the 35-year-old.
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