(Stillwater, Okla.) – An ex-convict from Creek County and a woman on probation for drug possession have been charged together with passing two forged checks totaling $1,480 on a Bristow couple’s account at the Bank of Cushing drive-through on Main Street in Cushing.
Arrest warrants have been issued for William Richard Hanlin, 26, of Bristow, whose surname is spelled Hanlan on his Creek County convictions, and his friend, Kelly Kristin Parks, 32, of Disney, but neither was in the Payne County Jail on Monday morning, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
Cushing Police Sgt. Adam Harp wrote in an affidavit filed on New Year’s Eve with the charges that he has been unable to make contact with either defendant.
Creek County Sheriff’s Deputy Ronald Teel had gone to the Cushing Police Station on Nov. 5 to provide a report of an auto burglary in which checks were stolen and forged in Cushing, Harp’s affidavit said.
A Bristow man said that two of his vehicles were burglarized of a checkbook and a GPS on Nov. 1, the affidavit said.
The victim said that when he checked his bank account on-line, he saw two transactions on Nov. 1, one for $640 and another for $840, the affidavit said.
“Contact was made with the Bank of Cushing which provided me with still photographs of both the suspects believed to be William Hanlin and Kelly Parks cashing the checks in the drive-through at the Bank of Cushing on Main Street,” the Cushing police sergeant wrote in his affidavit.
“Based upon the still photographs and comparison with William Hanlin and Kelly Parks’ Department of Corrections photographs, along with them using their personal identification or driver’s license, I believe that it was William and Kelly who cashed the forged checks,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
On Nov. 1, “I called and spoke with William about the forged check. I asked William if he had been to Cushing, Oklahoma, recently, and he said no. I asked William if he cashed any checks in Cushing and he said no,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
“I told him that a forged check was cashed here in Cushing and believed it was him based upon the information on the check and the still photograph.
“William denied cashing the forged checks.
“I asked him if he knew a Kelly Parks and he said yes that it was his friend. I asked William if he had her telephone number, and he said, yes, but that it was in his phone and he was driving and would call me back and hung up.
“William has not called me back and I have not been able to make contact with him or Kelly,” Harp wrote in his affidavit.
The victim said that he did not know either defendant — and that they did not have permission to cash the checks and forged the couple’s signatures, the affidavit alleged.
Hanlin, whose surname is spelled as Hanlan on DOC and Creek County court records, was released from prison about a year ago after serving about 16 months — five months for two concurrent two-year prison terms followed by 11 months for two concurrent three-year prison terms.
Two years ago, he had been convicted in Creek County of two second-degree burglaries and two drug possession charges, all in 2011, DOC records show.
About 18 months ago, Parks had been convicted in Creek County of drug possession in 2011 for which she was given a five-year suspended sentence except 90 days in jail, and bail jumping in 2012 for which she was given a one-year suspended sentence except 90 days in jail, court records show.
If convicted of their Payne County charges of two counts of second-degree forgery after a former felony conviction, the pair could each be given a 14-year prison sentence, court records show.
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