MOST WANTED: Pawn Shop Fake Check Suspects
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Updated: 1:29 PM Aug 25, 2008
MOST WANTED: Pawn Shop Fake Check Suspects
STATUS: CAUGHT
Police in South Charleston say your tips helped catch two people accused of cashing at least one fake payroll check.
Posted: 4:44 PM Mar 27, 2008
Reporter: Mike Waterhouse
Email Address: mike.waterhouse@wsaz.com
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UPDATE: 8/14/08
South Charleston Police say tips poured in after we showed the surveillance pictures below, identifying the suspects as as Michael Bloomer and Ruby Thompson.

Detectives say they cashed a fake payroll check at Will's Jewelry and Pawn.

Bloomer and Thompson are from Cabell County, but are doing time in northern Ohio for similar crimes.

Police estimate the two cashed thousands of dollars worth of fake checks.


ORIGINAL STORY: 3/27/08
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Police in South Charleston are asking for the public's help to catch two people they say cashed at least one fake payroll check.

The department has named the woman and man in the pictures below two of Charleston's Most Wanted.

According to detectives, the suspects went to Will's Jewelry and Pawn on MacCorkle Avenue -- and the woman cashed a fake payroll check for Mullens Electric.

It was for more than $600 and happened in 2007.

Investigators say there have been other reports of the same fake checks being used in the area.

Police need your help to identify and catch these two people.

Call Detective P.C. Rader at the South Charleston Police Department at (304) 744-6903 if you have any information about the man or woman in these pictures

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