According to the Paducah Police Department, officers were called Saturday morning after employees at Community Financial Services Bank on Park Avenue noticed a man and a woman were both trying to cash checks valued at $1,985.43.
Bank officials contacted the account holder, and learned the checks were forgeries. Police arrested 49-year-old Jacqueline F. Rice and 50-year-old John R. Dickerson, both of Knoxville, TN, on charges of first-degree forgery and first-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Both were lodged in the McCracken County Regional Jail.