Man Arrested for $11K Check-Washing Scam

0:00It's April 14th. This is Hartford News today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. A 24-year-old Georgia man named Brian White just got extra-dited to Connecticut on charges tied to a slick check-washing scam. Cops say it's part of a bigger, coordinated fraud operation. He faces second-degree larceny in forgery after allegedly cashing a wash check for $11,429. Earlier this month, South Carolina highway patrol nabbed him during a traffic stop on March 17th thanks to a warrant from Connecticut State. Police. They shipped him a blast Friday to face the music. The victim, a woman who wrote that check to a vendor, got hit hard when her bank payment vanished. She logged in and saw the check had been chemically altered and cached by White, leaving her out that big chunk of cash. Investigators dud deep, pulling bank records and surveillance video from a New York bank where the check dropped on July 17th. White strivers licensed photo matched the guy on camera

1:00making the deposit. White showed up in Torrenton Superior Court of Monday, but his case got pushed to May 6th. He's locked up on a $250,000 bond with no plea yet, so this fraud story is still unfolding.