MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police have arrested 27-year-old Roshell Perkins for allegedly depositing $25,000 worth of forged checks into her First Horizon account and transferring the funds to a Cash App account before the bank detected the fraud.
Perkins was booked into the Shelby County Jail this week on charges of forgery and theft involving amounts between $10,000 and $60,000. Bank investigators reported that multiple counterfeit checks were deposited into Perkins' account between June 18 and July 1.
The fraudulent checks included two checks totaling nearly $6,000 from Jackson Christian School in Jackson, Tennessee, and a $4,163 check from Forsyth Rooter Service in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Representatives from the businesses informed the police that the checks were originally made out to different vendors and expressed confusion over how Perkins obtained them.
A Forsyth Rooter Service employee noted, "We noticed our vendor hadn’t been paid, and that’s when we got the bank to send us a copy, and that’s when we found it wasn’t made out to our vendor."
According to police, all the stolen checks were made out to Perkins, despite the fact that she had never worked for these businesses. Investigators reviewed bank statements that documented the deposit of the forged checks and the subsequent transfer of funds through Cash App.
Perkins was released from jail on Tuesday after posting a $7,500 bond and is set to appear in court on Wednesday.
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