Williamsport Check Scam 11/8/05
By: Import User
Updated: January 25, 2007
In Williamsport, a check writing scam leaves area businesses seeing red.
According to Williamsport Police, Russell Travers III, Lubrianna Golden and James Marius wrote more than one hundred checks on Travers` closed bank account.
One of the businesses vicitmized by the scam was the Robert M. Sides Music Store.
Investigators say the trio used their scam to buy nearly four-thousand dollars worth of merchandise.
So far, investigators have not recovered any of the music equipment.
Police don`t know how many other local businesses may have also received the bad checks.
The three men charged are now awaiting a preliminary hearing.
