Tallahassee, FL (December 16, 2018) - A Quincy woman was booked into jail on Friday, December 14th after she was charged with bank fraud and criminal use of an identification.
19-year-old Janna Lashar Makayla Fryson faces the charges following incidents at several Florida banks in November, 2018. The first incident allegedly occurred on November 6th when Fryson cashed four checks totaling $3,748 at three separate branches of the First Florida Credit Union. Later, on November 16th, she is accused of meeting a man named Jonathan Vance at another FFCU location as well as a Sunshine Savings Bank. There, the two cashed checks totaling $1,700.
Fryson was then contacted by investigators where she made statements implicating herself in the check-cashing scheme. Fryson also revealed that the checks were drawn in the name of a man and a 75-year-old woman and were not in her name when they were cashed.
Fryson was charged with criminal use of personal identifications information of a person over 60, possession of a counterfeit payment instrument, uttering a forged instrument, bank fraud and organizd scheme to defraud. She was booked into the Leon County Detention Center Friday and is being held on a $23,000 bond.
Tallahassee Fraud and Theft Crimes
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