ARRAIGNMENT FOR TRIO SLATED IN FORGERY CASE.Byline: Amy Raisin Darvish Staff Writer VALENCIA - Arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted is scheduled today for three people suspected of trying to cash a forged check at a local bank and who were later found in possession of credit cards stolen in separate residential burglaries in recent weeks, authorities said. The trio was arrested before noon Wednesday at Washington Mutual “WaMu” redirects here. For the Washington, DC radio station, see WAMU. Washington Mutual (or WaMu; NYSE: WM) is the United States' largest savings and loan association. Bank on McBean Parkway after a bank teller A bank teller is an employee of a bank who deals directly with most customers. In some places this employee is known as a cashier. Tellers are considered a "front line" in the banking business. , suspicious that a check a woman was trying to cash was forged, summoned sheriff's deputies. Jennifer Reveles, 23, who presented the check to the teller, was arrested with her brother, 20-year-old James Reveles, and a man who was waiting in a car outside the bank. They are due to be arraigned in Newhall Superior Court. Both men were on parole when they were arrested Wednesday, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Detective John Howard For other persons of the same name, see John Howard (disambiguation). John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. of the Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, sheriff's station. ``The woman had credit cards and (identification) that had been stolen during a burglary in Newhall,'' Howard said. ``She was with (her brother) who had other stolen credit cards from a separate residential burglary in Newhall.'' Howard said those burglaries, as well as others in the area, occurred in the weeks after Christmas. The third suspect, Colin Slack, 25, who Howard said was driving the getaway car, faces an additional charge of possessing tools used to commit burglary. Howard did not say what those tools were. Howard said the check Reveles attempted to cash was a genuine check that had been ``washed,'' - where valid information such as the payee's name and check amount is erased and replaced with another name or total. That check had been stolen out of a mail box, he said. Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com |
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