Police: Woman Caught Trying to Buy Electronics With Fake Checks

A Lansing woman was caught using a false check to buy close to $1,000 worth of electronics from an Orland Park store, and was found with several other fake checks as well as a false ID, according to police.

On Nov. 2, the Orland Park Police Department was called about a woman using what was believed to be a fake check at Best Buy, 15854 LaGrange Road, around 3:40 p.m. Store staff said a woman was about to buy $979.88 worth of electronics, including an iPad and a Toshiba laptop computer, according to an Orland Park police report.

The woman wrote a Bank of America check and gave the clerk an ID with the name Jessica D. Craig on it, before taking the check back from the employee, getting into a gray Ford Fusion and driving away from the store, police said. The woman appeared nervous when the store employee wrote her name on it before she took the check back, police said.

She was pulled over on 159th Street and LaGrange Road, where the license she gave police read Jessica D. Luckett, 37, of the 3600 block of 174th Court in Lansing, according to the report.

A total of 28 fraudulent checks were found in her purse, along with a false ID and five receipts from past Best Buy purchases, police said. An HP laser printer was found in her car, according to the report.

Officers found that the routing numbers on the checks belonged to Guaranty Bank based in Milwaukee, Wisc., however the bank had no account matching the number listed on the checks, police said.

Luckett was charged with felony forgery and possession of a fraudulent ID card.

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