A man is accused of writing thousands of dollars’ worth of bad checks after depositing a phony check for nearly $3,000 at the Bradford Area Federal Credit Union on East Washington Street.
Court papers say Antonio Harris deposited the fake check on March 11, then starting withdrawing money within four days. It totaled $2,500. On March 24 representatives of the credit union told him to stop writing checks because there was no money in the account. But he continued writing checks until this past Thursday. The amount of money he wrote checks for at the time of the police report was more than $4,300.
Police interviewed Jenelle Harris, who said Harris made her open the checking account because she already had a savings account at the credit union. Antonio signed her name below his on all of the checks.
He is charged with felony counts of forgery, along with 17 counts of bad checks and one count of theft by deception. He’s in McKean County Jail, unable to post $15,000 bail.