RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. – Police are searching for a ring of check counterfeiters who have passed dozens of fake payroll checks on area institutions, leaving some of them with thousands of dollars in losses. Listerhill CU reported that 17 checks, which appear to be payroll checks from Pilgrim’s Pride convenience stores, were returned because they were bogus. Similar checks were passed at at least two other local banks. The checks appear to have been passed by the same group of people, each of whom used alien registration cards as Ids when cashing the checks, police said. Police suggest the ring may be the same ones who passed $90,000 in phony payroll checks from Gold Kist a few years ago.
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