(Stillwater, Okla.) — Two days after failing to appear in Payne County District Court last week on a charge of obtaining $4,000 from a man by false pretense, a Yale woman was charged with obtaining $1,700 by false pretense from American Heritage Bank in Yale by depositing a counterfeit cashier’s check.
If convicted of both felonies, Jamie Christen Richardson, 38, could be given as much as a 20-year prison term, according to court documents filed by Assistant District Attorney Tom Lee. Richardson was arrested Wednesday and freed on $5,000 bail pending an Aug. 29 court appearance.
In her new case filed last week, Richardson was accused of obtaining $1,700 belonging to the Yale bank on April 19 by opening an on-line checking account and depositing a counterfeit cashier’s check, according to court records.
A year ago, Richardson was accused of selling a man a portable building, which she acquired from Double G Rentals, but allegedly had never paid for, court records show.
A recovery manager for Double G. Rentals based in Mayfield, Kentucky, “reported Richardson had signed a lease/purchase agreement on a used 12’ x 40’ double-lofted cabin-style portable building,” which was transported to her property on old Highway 51 in rural Yale, an affidavit alleged.
The recovery manager said that Richardson never made any payments on the building that she then sold to a man on June 10, 2017, for $4,000, Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy David Barnes alleged in an affidavit.
The recovery manager said “she discovered Richardson had posted the building for sale on Facebook and Craig’s List,” the affidavit alleged.
The recovery manager said “she had texted back and forth with Richardson, but Richardson refused to make any payments,” and finally stopped answering her texts or calls, the affidavit alleged.
The buyer “reported a family member had alerted him to the fact the building was for sale,” so he went to the rural Yale property to meet with Richardson and look at the building, the affidavit alleged.
“He stated he purchased the building on June 10, 2017, for $4,000, and Richardson provided him with a signed handwritten bill of sale,” which he showed to the deputy, the affidavit alleged.
The buyer said that he had the building moved to his rural Pawnee County property on Appalachia Bay in Cleveland, the affidavit alleged.
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