Pretrial Probation for Pharmacist Charged With Forgery Uttering and Attempted Larceny by Check

Our client is a pharmaceutical student who cannot have a criminal conviction of any sort. Over the past 6-8 months she was involved with a man who had been scamming elderly people. His employment took him into assisted living facilities. There, he befriended the residents, obtained their trust and convinced them to write checks to himself. This man then used women with whom he had relationships. He would sign the checks over to them. He would then ask them to cash the checks. He told them he could not do this as all of his bank accounts had been frozen after someone hacked his accounts and stole his money. All of this was untrue but nevertheless convinced our client and others to unwittingly assist with his plan. Our client tried to cash the checks at two branches of the bank on which the checks were written. She was denied at both and subsequently received a complaint for forgery G.L. c. 267 section 1, uttering a false check G.L. c. 267 section 5 and attempted larceny by check G.L. c. 266 section 37. Convincing the district attorney’s office that our client was in fact unknowingly participating in this they agreed to pretrial probation under G.L. c. 276 section 87. All charges will be dismissed and our client can continue with her education.

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