Man admits to cashing counterfeit checks in Poplar Grove, Marengo and Harvard
Posted December 21, 2018 12:00 am
A Mexican citizen pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to cashing counterfeit checks at banks and businesses in Poplar Grove, Marengo and Harvard.
According to the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Javier Santos Suarez, 40, who used several aliases, cashed checks totaling more than $700,000 in northern Illinois and other states.
Prosecutors said that from January 2003 through August 2003, he and co-defendants used false documents to cash the checks near businesses from which they were supposed to have been drawn.
Suarez, who was found in Wisconsin, faces a maximum of 30 years in prison, up to five years of supervised release after the sentence and up to $1 million in fines.
Sentencing is set for May 13.
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