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MOST WANTED: Pawn Shop Fake Check Suspects Save Email Print
Posted: 7:44 PM Mar 27, 2008
Last Updated: 4:29 PM Aug 25, 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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Posted by: not available on Sep 6, 2008 at 09:35 PM
they r not in jail now. call the jail in akron and find out.

Posted by: what on Aug 3, 2008 at 02:05 AM
get over this already !!!!!!!!!!the pawnshops should have knew better could'nt ya tell that they was up to something?look at the tape again!!!!

Posted by: ruth robinette on Jun 15, 2008 at 05:24 AM
oh my god you all were told where to find them who havent thay riped off ruby and mike want to be called bonnie and clyde thay are good at this thats why you havent found them yet right here you got the new bonnie and clyde lol........

Posted by: mary on Mar 29, 2008 at 04:41 PM
i know who they are they are both in jail now,in another state.

Posted by: me on Mar 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM
they just needed a fix and got the frist thing they ran up on.hpoe u get them

Posted by: reader on Mar 29, 2008 at 06:30 AM
I believe that these two are from Mason County, WV. They look like people I have seen more than once. Send pictures to the cops here.

Posted by: t on Mar 28, 2008 at 04:55 PM
....just more "career trash"

Posted by: Anonymous on Mar 28, 2008 at 02:24 PM
TO ANON:9:36 tHAT IS TRUE THAT THESE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW BETTER, BUT OUR ECONOMY IS SO BAD AND ONLY GETTING WORSE THAT MORE AND MORE THINGS LIKE THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN, EVEN THE WORKING CLASS IS STRUGGLING, I WORK EVERYDAY AND WE BARELY MAKE ENOUGH TO GET BACK TO WORK THE NEXT WEEK. WHAT WORLD ARE YOU LIVING IN?

Posted by: Angry citizen on Mar 28, 2008 at 02:19 PM
I'm really surprised that these people are on the Most Wanted List, i mean come on lets get real, what are they going to do with them when they catch them....NOTHING> Just like Carter County. My boyfriend worked for a guy and the guy wrote him two bad payroll checks and he cashed them not knowing that they were going to bounce, now this was in 06,the checks bounced over 1000.00, and who was left to make the checks good? We were!! We have since then filed all the necessary paperwork and still they haven't arrested the man that wrote the checks. They know where he lives, I mean come on Grayson isn't that big...But still to this day we are trying to get justice.. I suppose in a country where there isn't any justice anymore. This is nonsense Carter County get off your butts and look for these people with outstanding warrants. I'll buy you a dozen doughnuts if you do!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe on Mar 28, 2008 at 08:01 AM
Wasn't that Bill Ray Cyrus?

Posted by: Anonymous on Mar 28, 2008 at 03:48 AM
I saw a couple tonight that looked exactly like them at Mallory's Grocery Store on Spring Hill Mtn. It was 3:00 am and they was sitting outside on the sidewalk we stopped to ask them if they needed help and they said no and both of them looked like these suspects. Might be worth looking into the area!

Posted by: Melissa on Mar 28, 2008 at 02:30 AM
Jeff, you're too funny ;) lol.

Posted by: jeffkemper on Mar 27, 2008 at 11:45 PM
On the plus side, at least this couple looks somewhat intelligent...and fit also classy; with excellent haircuts. They almost resemble grad school professors......def would have fooled me

Posted by: Anonymous on Mar 27, 2008 at 09:36 PM
THE SAD THING ABOUT THIS IS IF THEY WOULD USE ALL THE TIME AND ENERGY THEY PUT INTO BEING CRIMINALS TO LOOK FOR A JOB. THEY WOULDN'T BE IN THE SITUATION THERE IN. THEY BOTH LOOK OLDER YOU WOULD THINK BY KNOW THEY WOULD KNOW NOTHING IS FREE YOU HAVE TO WORK IN ORDER TO MAKE MONEY. THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES

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