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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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Edward Scott, 27, from Memphis, Tenn., arrested in Chicago for forging and passing $349 in government checks stolen from fellow ex-G.I.s while at A. M. & N. College in Pine Bluff, Ark. He also forged $200 in bank checks by impersonating a student. Sentenced to one year and a day; faces mail theft charges.
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A twenty-seven year old, former native of Memphis, Tenn., Edward Scott, was arrested in Chicago, Ill. and sentenced in a Chicago Federal Court on two counts filed in Little Rock, charging him with forgery and passing of two government checks totaling $349, according to the Little Rock Secret Service Office, special agent George Bausewein in charge.
The Secret Service Office reported that Scott stole and forged government subsistence checks belonging to other ex-G.I.'s while he was a student at A. M. & N. College, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. last year.
Other investigation revealed that Scott had telephoned a Pine Bluff Bank, identifying himself as another student and requested that a statement of the other man's bank balance and cancelled checks be forwarded to a new address. After studying handwriting on the cancelled checks, Scott was able to duplicate the writing and forge $200 in checks against the bank account. He then received and destroyed the cancelled and forged checks, the Secret Service Agent stated.
A Chicago post office employee at the time of his arrest, Scott has been sentenced to one year and a day. He also faces charges of mail theft, according to information from Illinois.
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Edward Scott, a former student at A. M. & N. College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, stole and forged government checks from other ex-G.I.s, and also forged $200 in checks by impersonating another student to obtain bank records. Arrested in Chicago while working at a post office, he was sentenced to one year and a day in federal court for forgery and passing checks totaling $349, and faces additional mail theft charges.