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Police: North Side Man Forged Paychecks
By Staff Reports
The Tube City Almanac
May 29, 2024
Posted in: Crime and Police News
A man from Pittsburgh’s North Side is being held in the Allegheny County Jail after McKeesport police allege he forged and attemped to cash more than $4,700 in paychecks from a city contracting business.
Sherman S. Jones, 46, is charged by McKeesport police with six counts each of forgery and passing bad checks, three counts of access device fraud, and theft by deception.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 3 before Magisterial District Judge Eugene Riazzi.
In an affidavit of probable cause, McKeesport police said that a plumbing contractor in the city reported Nov. 14 that someone had forged six paychecks from their business and attempted to cash them at a check-cashing store in Homestead.
Two checks were successfully cashed on Nov. 4, totalling $1,373.71, police said.
The same person returned to the check-cashing store on Nov. 6 and Nov. 14 with additional forged checks but the store declined to honor them, police said.
The checks were made out to “Sherman Jones,” police said.
Police said they obtained video surveillance of the person involved in each of the incidents. He was identified as Jones, police said.
According to police, an investigation determined that Jones has never worked for the plumbing company in any capacity.
Court records indicate that Jones was arrested May 15 in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood after what police described as a series of attempted robberies. Police allege Jones used a woman’s cell phone to transfer $200 from a banking app without her permission, then went to a nearby pharmacy and a restaurant and at both places, demanded cash from employees.
Police said Jones fled without money after employees refused to cooperate.
Jones is charged by Pittsburgh police with robbery, attempted robbery, retail theft and theft by unlawful taking. He faces a preliminary hearing Friday on the Pittsburgh charges.
Jones is being held in jail without bond after a magistrate determined he represented a danger to the community, according to court records.
Originally published May 29, 2024.
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