Williamson holds annual hot-check roundup
1,000 people charged with theft by check have until March 26 to settle up or face arrest.
By Claire Osborn
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Published: 8:11 p.m. Sunday, March 7, 2010
Hot-check writers aren't stealing big-ticket items such as tractors from Georgetown Farming Supply.
It's mostly small stuff — chicken feed and even monkey biscuits — that customers write checks for when they don't have enough money in their bank accounts, manager Linda Marion said.
The store is one of the many businesses in Williamson County struck by people who have written about $1.4 million in hot checks from March 1, 2009, to the beginning of March this year, said Royger Harris, a criminal investigator with the Williamson County attorney's office.
Read the entire article HERE.
