A 23-year-old man is facing multiple felony charges after deputies say he stole checks from his father and then forged them.Arrest reports say Andrew Alexander Roberts, 3640 6th Ave. S.E., Golden Gate Estates, approached four friends from November 2008 to May 2009 and asked them to cash some checks written to him on his behalf. He told each person that his parents wrote him checks but he could not cash them because he lost his ID.
Deputies say each friend went to their banks, deposited the checks into their accounts, immediately withdrew the money and then handed the cash to Roberts. Eventually, they were all notified by their banks that the checks were bad, reports said.
Roger Roberts told deputies that he and his wife never wrote the checks to their son and that a series of their checks had been stolen from their home, reports said.
The total amount of the cashed bad checks was $3,555, reports said.
Deputies located Roberts on Wednesday and arrested him. He was charged with five counts of grand theft and 11 counts of uttering a forged instrument, reports said.
