Bounced Check Being Pursued Heavily?

Question

I had bounced 2 rent checks back in January totaling about $1200. These checks were actually for my girlfriends rent so I am not bound to a lease and I do not live on the property.

Since then I received letters from a lawyer demanding payment which I cannot afford now, now I received a letter from a police department worthless check division.

Am I facing possible jail time if I cannot pay for these checks? The check from the police just demanded payment within 5 business days.

Maybe I should mention that the the man who cashed the checks told me he wasn't going to cash them and held them for 2 months before cashing them without notice. I don't appreciate the negative comments about my character.

I called first thing at 8 this morning and the police department setup a payment plan with me so I avoided any criminal action. So all seems to be well. Thanks for all the advice.

Answer 1

Depending on the jurisdiction, yes. More probable they will hound your credit and tag you with judgements and if the state allows a salary garnishment. Bounced is bounced no matter.

Answer 2

As above posters have already indicated, it does not matter that you were not on the lease; if and when you ever write a check, It is your responsibility to have collected funds in your checking account at the time you write it; the person that you write the check to is under no obligation to hold and not cash the checks.

If you don't make good on the checks within the 5 business days that the police have given you, you can and very highly likely will be, especially due to the high dollar amount involved, charged with felony criminal conversion and may end up doing time in prison, unless you can come up with the money by borrowing from a relative or friend, work out a payment arrangement with the landlord you bounced the checks on and stick to it.

Answer 3

A bad check is a bad check no matter if it was paying your rent, her rent, the Pope's rent --- you wrote the checks and you offered them as payment so now you are on the hook for the $1200.
Get a lawyer - and in the mean time beg and borrow the money to cover those checks ASAP.
You have just gotten yourself a criminal record my friend - and a huge hit on your credit, and depending on your state you may not even be able to have a checking account any longer.

Bad checks are no joke.

Answer 4

They will pick you up, if not a warrant for your arrest will be issued and when you get stoped on the road, your butt is going to jail and it is a felony class A, bud, not a smart thing to do.. Does your girl know? And you will be reported to check systems and your account will be closed and no one will accept your checks and the banks won't open any more accounts for 7 years. Hope it was worth it, and depending on what state your in, your looking at 6 months, or up to 3 times the amount of each check plus legal fees. They call this crime, white collar theift. Hope you don't have any more, but I am thinking you might. It will catch up to you.

Answer 5

I spent 6 months in prison, (not jail) for bouncing a $500 check when my ex emptied my account out. That was in southern Illinois, in chicago, that would never happen. It all depends on the juristiction and sze of the city. However, writing a check over $350 is a felony if ther is proof that you intentionally bouned in. Yet, chances are, you would get probation at worse, if in a big city, a money magamement class.

Basically, get an attorney NOW.

Answer 6

If you wrote the check and it bounced, whether or not you are on the lease is a non-issue.
The fact that your girlfriend benefited from the act and you knowingly wrote the check on an account with insufficient funds constitutes "fraud by conversion".

The least expensive course of action would to make good on the checks. Court costs can add up quickly.

Answer 7

Yes you could get jail time for this offense...probation, restitution etc etc....you will have to pay the checks and all the recovery cost (court fees if any) then you should file a small claims suit against your girlfriend to recover your loss...but pay the checks, go to prosecuting attorney and make payment arrangments, or at least see if they will work with you. You say you can not afford it now, sounds like you could not afford it then either, you wrote checks knowing you could not cover them, here it is called "deceptive practices"

Answer 8

better barrow the cash from some one and pay within the 5 days if not the police will send it to the DA and depending on how busy they are you could be prosecuted, end up in jail, and worst have a felony on your record for ever, meaning anytime you go for a job, or rent a place it will come up

I hope she was worth it

Answer 9

once you get the cheque lower back from Barclay's there'll be a masking letter telling you why the cheque has been decrease back. In situations like this you may desire to continuously pass lower back to the shopper first and enable them to comprehend whats got here approximately. it would desire to be a actual reason (such because of the fact the economic corporation taking direct debits two times in a month) and the shopper does not comprehend approximately it. with out speaking to the shopper you will in no way discover out. in the event that they do no longer look to be forth coming over the telephone, pass and knock on the door...i've got stumbled on that maximum folk will backtrack then. I even had one retail corporation bounce a cheque on the corporation i replaced into working for some years in the past - I walked into their shop on an identical time because it replaced into crammed with purchasers and asked the owner what he replaced into going to do approximately his bounced cheque in a noisy sufficient voice to be heard through anybody . He gave me the money and an further £20 to cover economic corporation rates! (do no longer comprehend if i might get away with that for the duration of recent times tho). in case you have had fee issues of the shopper in the previous, why did no longer you get cleared fee first or stipulate situations which includes area fee first?

Answer 10

your going to jail so get use to the idea. where i live any bad check over 300.00 is a felony. i get arrest warrants for people like you a few times a month. you better come up with the cash or its the chain gang bud.