STOLEN CHECKS, CREDIT CARDS LEAD TO ARREST OF TWO WOMEN.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - Two women were arrested over the weekend by a California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. officer after he spotted checks and credit cards in their car, items that were stolen and later found to have been used for thousands of dollars in recent purchases. Officer Paul Peterson For the actor and novelist William Paul Petersen, see Paul Petersen. Paul Peterson, also known as St. Paul, is a musician best known for his memberships in the bands The Family and The Time. arrested Melissa Medina, 21, of Canyon Country, who was booked on several charges including burglary, forgery forgery, in art forgery, in art, the false claim to authenticity for a work of art. The Nature of Forgery Because the provenance of works of art is seldom clear and because their origin is often judged by means of subtle factors, art and drug possession. Medina also was wanted on a no-bail warrant for probation violation in a drug case, said CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer Wendy Hahn. Medina was wanted for trying to pass a bad check at a nearby Wal-Mart moments earlier, and a sheriff's deputy on that call identified her from the store's security video, Hahn said. Peterson pulled Medina over about 9:30 a.m. Sunday on The Old Road in Valencia because her car registration tags were expired for more than two years, Hahn said. The checks and credit cards found in the back of her car had been in a Ford Explorer
The Ford Explorer is a mid-size sport utility vehicle sold in North America and built by the Ford Motor Company since 1990. reported stolen by a woman who was visiting from Arkansas. ``We contacted the sheriff's station and they had a deputy out at the Wal-Mart investigating a bogus check and (Peterson) put two and two together,'' Hahn said. ``The sheriff's detective who had just viewed the video identified the driver as the one who had tried to pass a check without I.D.'' Hahn said the Arkansas woman's checks and credit cards had been used in the past week in 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, and Ventura for thousands of dollars in purchases. Medina's passenger, Christine Dawes, 26, of Canyon Country, was held on a Venutra County warrant, also involving drugs. |
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