Legal Question in Criminal Law in Mississippi

Re: Check Fraud

Call any of the local officials (ie. sheriff, district attornery, mayor's office, police department) They will give you the specific person to call and start collection.

You may want to call his mom and request her make good on the check. (It worked for me when my roommate wrote a bad check for some Pink Floyd tickets)

If she won't help you call in the troops. That will get his attention.

Let me know if I may be of more assistance.

Jeff Padgett

'662-563-9625

Re: Check Fraud

As I understand it, your roomate didn't forge the check, just wrote a bad check. You can do one of two things: 1) Prosecute for a bad check, or 2) file a civil action in justice court for the check.

Jeff Navarro

Re: Check Fraud

This response is neither confidential nor based on any particularized research. It is based on my general experience, and only the limited facts in your email. No attorney-client relationship is formed.

Contact your local district attorney bad check unit for collection on your check. The joint owner of the account on which the check was written is not liable for the check just because she is a joint owner of the account.