AN ARREST FOR CHECK FRAUD IN TWENTYNINE PALMS

A Twentynine Palms woman was taken into custody, accused of cashing stolen checks. Tuesday, September 23, Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the Navy Federal Credit Union in Twentynine Palms in response to a report of a woman attempting to cash a stolen check. Deputies made contact at the bank with Myra Romero, 31, who admitted to writing several stolen checks to several people, defrauding the owner of the checks of over $2,000. Romero was arrested for investigation of check fraud, and on two warrants, and was booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with her total bail set at $50,000.