Since late January Lincoln Police have been investigating a case where a 42 year old man had used another man’s bank account information to pay rent. Officer Erin Spilker says on Monday they arrested 42 year old Terrence Turner for felony Theft by Deception. The investigation began when another man found that a check written on his account was fraudulent. The check was written for $1,500 to an account at a local bank.
The victim also noticed that there were two payments made for $2,000 and for $216 from his account that he did not authorize. Spilker says its believed that the charges were made using the account information from the check to make the online payments.
It was determined that the account through Realty Works where a payment was made belonged to Turner who had been behind on rent payments. The other account that a payment was made to was also found to belong to Turner.