Stolen check: Someone swiped $1.4 million from Cumberland County and Fayetteville Tech
The Fayetteville Observer reports someone stole a $1.4 million check sent via U.S. mail from the Cumberland County government to Fayetteville Technical Community College.
The thief intercepted the check in June, got JPMorgan Chase Bank to redeem it, and got away with the cash, according to county and college officials.
After being contacted by North Carolina’s state treasurer in November, Chase Bank reimbursed the stolen taxpayer money to Cumberland County’s bank, and the county then forwarded it electronically to Fayetteville Tech on Dec. 2.
“This is still an active case. No one has been arrested and a suspect has not yet been identified,” said a spokesperson for the Fayetteville Police Department.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective J. Kelly at 910-257-7708 or Crime Stoppers at 910-483-TIPS (8477).
The money was to pay Fayetteville Tech for construction at its new fire and emergency training complex, said Catherine Pritchard, FTCC’s executive director for public relations and marketing.
The 30-acre complex has a classroom and lab building, a training tower, a four-story “burn building” and other training facilities, and has broken ground for a swift water training center.
