Kanatzar gets probation

Kristen Kanatzar, II, of Mountain Home was given 10 years probation after pleading guilty to charges of faking court papers having to do with his divorce, and obtaining a credit card in the name of another person during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.According to investigative records, the 29-year-old Kanatzar did not have the money to pay an attorney to finalize his divorce papers and in order to stop his wife from asking him about the paperwork, he faked the documents, forged a judge’s signature and sent them to his soon to be ex-spouse.

Unfortunately, that is not legal and Kanatzar was arrested after his wife called the Mountain Home Police Department in mid-July last year to report her suspicions that the papers she had been sent were fake.

Investigators determined that her suspicions were correct. When Kanatzar was interviewed by police, he was reported to have admitted to copying a judge’s signature and lifting a facsimile of the stamp that would indicate that the paperwork had been filed with the County Clerk’s office from legitimate documents.

He said he was hoping that the faked paperwork would stop his wife’s questions about when their divorce would be finalized.

In the other case against him, Kanatzar was charged with obtaining a credit card in the name of another person and using that card to run up almost $1,700 in purchases. According to investigative records, the victim had once been a friend of Kanatzar.

Kanatzar was ordered to pay restitution for the purchases made on the fraudulent credit card.

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