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The sport of writing bad checks is alive and well in Lawrence, causing many grocery store managers to tighten their policies and to turn to Frances for help.
You probably don't know who Frances is unless you've been arrested for writing bad checks, but she is often店 manager's last resort when they're faced with returned cards.
Frances Berkowitz is a 27-year-old special investigator for Douglas County and a woman you don't want to know if you plan to write a bad check.
"It's a relatively new position," according to Berkowitz, who has worked as special investigator since she was hired under a federal grant about two years ago.
in most counties, returned checks are bandled by the sheriff's office.
WORKING IN A Lawrence office, Berkowitz tries to collect payment on about 200 checks a month. The checks come from all over the county.
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By the time a check is sent to her office, it is 30 days old. The first step in collecting payment for the check is to send a letter to the check writer, Berkowitz said, and added that reaching the person is seldom a problem.
"HAVEN't figured out why," she said, but people who write bad checks almost always tell the truth.
Berkwitz said that if the person didn't answer the letter, he received a summons to jail.
If he fails to appear in court, a warrant for his arrest is sent to the sheriff. If the person has written at least three bad checks, she said, she doesn't bother with a letter or a summons, but immediately sends a warrant to the sheriff.
Some people get in trouble on their first offense when they ignore her letter,让她说的话。
People found guilty on their first offense usually are released if they pay for the check and the court fee, Berkowitz said. If the person can't pay, a payment plan is set
"I HAD ONE guy who wrote a bad check for $1 and some odd change," she said. "He didn't answer the letter so he eventually had to nav a $4 court fee."
"Most of the checks we get are first offenses," she said. "But sometimes we get a guy that writes 20 or 30 checks at once, usually he gets caught."
"NO ONE助 FOR IDs," she said.
We could not execute anybody because we
wouldn't have permission.
Berkowitz said that when she first started working, she were more liberal about checking the checks.
Since then, she said, her office has ad-
vised the driver's licenses and to
initialize the checks.
"Now, about 90 per cent of the checks that come in we have a good case on," she said. "If it goes to court, they're going to be very few people fight it once it is in court."
Berkowitz said she told stores not to accept counter checks.
"IF THEY don't take an ID on a counter, they can forgive it," she said. "We don't even care a real person."
Even so, Berkowitz said she still got counter checks occasionally.
Many of the people Berkowitz deals with are repeat offenders.
"I've got some people that periodically go through spells of writing bad checks," she said. "Why some people do this, I don't know."
There are two types of people who write bad checks, Berkowitz said.
"The majority are people who don't know what they're doing," she said. "It gets near the edge."
little low. They don't get in trouble if they get in touch with us."
"Then there are the people who write the checks knowing they don't have the money."
"We had one guy come in here just off the bus," Berkowitz recalled. "We had three cases on him for bad checks and he walked into my office with his suitcase and asked if we had a warrant for his arrest. I told him we did, and he just said, 'Well, you might as well throw me in jail because I don't have any place to stay tonight.'"
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