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Thief checkmated at bank
By RICHARD ESPINOZA
The Kansas City Star

“What's the luck of being in the bank at the same time?”

Prairie Village Police Sgt. Craig Caster


It was the worst place to pass a stolen check, and the worst time.

But when the suspect walked into a Prairie Village savings association on Wednesday, police said, she couldn't have known her victim was already there filling out forms about her stolen checkbook.

“What's the luck of being in the bank at the same time?” Prairie Village Police Sgt. Craig Caster said Thursday.

It all began about noon Wednesday when the victim, a 76-year-old Leawood woman, was shopping in a Kansas City grocery store. She stepped away from her cart and someone swiped her purse.

The victim immediately called her savings association and was assured that her account would be flagged, she said. But three hours later, she started wondering what exactly “flagged” meant. She drove to the Capitol Federal Savings branch at 75th Street and State Line Road to inquire.

A manager told her that someone had just cashed a $475 check from her account at another branch.

The woman started filling out paperwork. Meanwhile, the manager learned that someone was trying to cash a second check on the woman's account, this time for $800, and this time in the same building. Employees stalled the suspect.

Police arrested Crystal Channelle Gibson, 20, of Kansas City. She was charged Thursday in Johnson County District Court with forgery.

The victim, whose name is not being released because police were seeking a second suspect Thursday, was surprised that her case was broken so quickly.

“I was delighted, but it was such a bizarre coincidence that I was there,” she said.

LOL, gotcha....hehehe

[David]

How stupid.