Holiday Inn employee accused of forging over $3K in checks
MEMPHIS, Tenn.– A Holiday Inn employee is charged with forgery after Memphis Police say she deposited several fraudulent checks into her bank account.
Inesha Sawyer, 27, is charged with theft of property $2,500-$10,000 and forgery. Her bond is set at $5,000.
On Tuesday, Memphis Police responded to the Holiday Inn on Elvis Presley Boulevard in Whitehaven. The owner stated that his employee, later identified as Inesha Sawyer, had been stealing from the business and was currently at work.
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The owner said it started when he received a call on Friday from First Horizon Bank. The bank representative asked him if he knew Sawyer and if his business deposited several checks into her account.
That is when the owner stated that Sawyer was his employee but his business did not make the deposits.
According to reports, six different checks were made out to Sawyer from the Investment Group and deposited into her account.
On May 13, $1,706.03 was deposited into Sawyer’s bank account. Two other checks were deposited into her Navy Federal account in the amount of $1,150.
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On May 18, one check of $545.97 was deposited into her account.
The owner says the deposited checks in Sawyer’s account do not exist and that they are not authorized transactions.
Sawyer gave a statement to police denying that she authorized the deposits and said her account was hacked.
Inesha Sawyer is scheduled to appear in court on May 29.
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