Man charged with $5,000 in bank fraud

A 32-year-old man already wanted for probation violation in Johnson County was arrested last week for his role in an alleged fraud at a local bank in the amount of more than $5,000.

According to a Dublin Police Department incident report, Paul Devante Rozier was charged with three counts of deposit account fraud on Sept. 24. An officer responded to a local bank after its retail service manager had been advised to file a police report for the bank’s losses due to a customer who had committed fraud.

The employee told an officer that a man had cashed and deposited checks, and the checks had came back as altered or fictitious, “refer to maker” and frozen/blocked account. The employee said the man had gone to both of the bank’s locations.

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The employee showed the officers copies of the checks that the man had allegedly cashed and deposited. One of the checks was in the amount of $2,493.21. The employee said the man physically cashed the check and walked out with the money on Sept. 16. Another check in the amount of $2,500 was deposited on Sept. 15. A third check in the amount of $2,490 was deposited on Sept. 17, but it came back.

All of the checks had Rozier’s name on them. The employee called Rozier multiple times but he did not answer. She called his place of employment and told Rozier he needed to clear this up, but he did not. She said the total amount of losses was $5,479.18.

The officer investigated Rozier, and he was wanted in Johnson County. He then went to Rozier’s job, arrested him and transported him to the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office.