By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Drumright man, who remains free on a personal recognizance bond, has been ordered to appear in court on Feb. 23 for arraignment on a felony charge accusing him of passing a forged $5,000 check to a bank in Perkins after it was allegedly stolen from a rural Cushing woman’s mailbox.
If convicted of a two-count charge filed last week, Joshua Edward Floyd, 29, who was already on probation for passing a forged check, could be given a seven-year prison term for the felony forgery count plus a six-month jail term for a misdemeanor count of possessing a stolen check.
Floyd and his passenger, Christine Anne Doyle, 30, of Yale, were in a red car at the drive-through of the Perkins branch of Stroud National Bank when they were arrested at 11:21 am on Jan. 23 — following a tip from Perkins Police Chief Bob Ernst that the pair were trying to cash a $5,000 check, an affidavit alleged.
On the previous day, the bank had refused to cash a $1,500 check that was also allegedly stolen from the same rural Cushing woman’s mailbox, Perkins Police Detective Billy Laster wrote in an affidavit.
The next day when Floyd was contacted by the Perkins police detective at the bank’s drive-through in a red car, he said he gave the $5,000 check — which the bank also refused to cash — to his passenger, later identified as Christine Doyle, who was also arrested, the affidavit alleged.
Doyle “admitted to Chief Ernst she, along with Floyd and an ‘Angie and David’ had stolen from several mailboxes. Floyd was said to be the one that wrote over the checks. They were trying to obtain money for Floyd to pay for drugs,” the Perkins detective alleged in his affidavit.
Doyle, who remains free on a personal recognizance bond, has been ordered to appear in court on Feb. 23 for arraignment on three misdemeanor counts of concealing stolen property and one misdemeanor count of obstructing an officer, court records show. Doyle has not been charged in connection with the alleged forgery.
“Once at the jail, Doyle turned over a total of six stolen checks that were concealed in her pants,” the affidavit alleged.
According to Creek County court records, Floyd has also been charged with delivering to RCB Bank in Drumright on Oct. 3, 2020, a $500 forged check on a Pawnee woman’s closed account with Armstrong Bank that had been written to a Yale man, a misdemeanor count on which he has been ordered to appear in court on Feb. 5.
Payne County court records show that on March 10, 2020, Floyd had been placed on probation for one year for passing a forged check in Cushing on July 18, 2019; Floyd was also given a 30-day jail term for shoplifting merchandise from a Cushing retailer on June 21, 2019.
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