Richfield Man Charged With Check Forgery
James Trenton Powell is accused of trying to cash counterfeit checks from a Minneapolis company at banks in Eagan and Columbia Heights.
A Richfield man has been charged with attempting to pass counterfeit checks at banks in Eagan and Columbia Heights. James Trenton Powell, 42, faces two felony charges for check forgery and offering a forged check, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. According to the complaint against Powell, Eagan Police received a report Dec. 22, 2010 from US Bank’s corporate security division that two counterfeit checks had been passed at the bank’s branch at Byerly’s in Eagan and two others at the bank’s branch in Columbia Heights. The bank included surveillance photos from the transactions with the report. According to the bank’s documentation, a counterfeit check for $657.42, made out to a different man…
