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Cantonment Woman Charged With Altering Check Deposited At Local Credit Union
June 23, 2025
A Cantonment woman was arrested on two felony charges after allegedly depositing an altered check at a local credit union.
Shaytrasia Traonna James, 19, was charged with grand theft and uttering a false instrument.
Harvesters Federal Credit Union alleged James deposited a check for $8,812.09 with the payee altered from “Hilldrup Moving and Storage” to “Shaytrasia James.” Harvester’s was required to return the money to Northeast Bank.
James told deputies that she did not realize that her name was forged on the check. She said she was approached by a local man and a second man she did not know who said they did not have bank accounts and asked James to deposit the check for them, according to an arrest report.
James was released from the Escambia County Jail on a $5,000 bond.
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9 Responses to “Cantonment Woman Charged With Altering Check Deposited At Local Credit Union”
Everyone so quick to judge. Total stranger handed her an 8800 dollar check to deposit in her account, you act like she did something wrong. It happens all the time. /s
I don’t know of any 19 yr old holding a $8,000.00 check for deposit. Big hint.
Hope you have fun in prison hopefully 20 plus years
Girl you was winning until u said u didn’t know how your name got on there which was the dumbest lie ever
Young people—If it sounds too good to be true then 99.9% of the time, it’s a scam. But let us remember that this younger generation do not use checks and have never seen a check before. This makes them to become an easy prey to scammers. I’m so happy that Florida has added financial literacy as a graduation requirement.
Liar, liar, false eyelashes on fire! She knows she lied. Now she’ll need that money for an Attorney. Bad girl!
Criminals are not know for their overload of intelligence
Genius
Sure, “did not realize that her name was forged”—exactly how did she think her name got on the check?