The Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 52-year-old Heddy Edna Hubbard, of 383 Hullender Hollow Road in Ringgold on Thursday on two counts of financial identity fraud.Police said a Ringgold, Ga., woman made thousands of dollars cashing fraudulent checks.
The Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office arrested 52-year-old Heddy Edna Hubbard, of 383 Hullender Road, on Thursday on two counts of financial identity fraud. They said her victims were Ringgold residents Nellie Echols and Tony Messer.
The case came to light when Echols complained to the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office. At the time, according to an incident report, Echols did not know who was taking her money.
She told detectives that, from Sept. 10 through Oct. 3, someone had cashed three checks worth $3,650 that supposedly came from Echols.
When the Northwest Georgia Bank told Echols about this, she learned that the money had been returned for accounts that either were closed or never existed.