A Yellville woman, 30-year-old Jennifer Adelia Carter, has been charged with eight felony charges in connection with checks and a credit/debit card taken from a Yellville woman.
Carter is the second person to be charged in the incident, with 28-year-old Jeramia Ray Troutner of Harrison facing similar offenses.
According to the probable cause affidavit, a Yellville woman was contacted by her bank in late 2017 advising checks were being cashed on her account. She told a Marion County Sheriff’s Office criminal investigator a couple of weeks prior to the call from her bank she had hired a young man to clean her yard. While she knew the man only as “Jimmy,” it was possible he had entered her home when she wasn’t there because the back door was never locked. She told the investigator a small chainsaw was missing from her garage after the man finished his work.
The investigator determined checks utilizing the Yellville woman’s routing and account numbers were forged with a specialty software program. A fictional landscaping company was created to lend credibility to the checks. The address used was the same as the Public Housing Authority in Yellville.
Carter faces four felony counts of forgery and four felony counts of theft of property involving a credit/debit card. Her bond was set at $5,000. Online jail records indicate she was booked into the Marion County Detention Center Sunday evening.
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