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&&V By CINDY MAHAN
RaHMlHMuncfc News Staff Writer
A jury found a Jeffersonton man guilty of forgery or uttering of two checks, felonies in violation of Virginia Code Section 18.2-172, Monday afternoon.
Howard Junior Gray, 37, cashed the two checks, totalling $325, at Ben Venue Market last May. He admitted this during testimony, and further admitted that he had signed the name Russell E. Pullen, to whose account the checks belonged, on one of the checks. Mr. Pullen testified that he had left his checkbook, with four blank checks, at Fauquier Bank one day last December and had never recovered it. He asked the bank to I stop payment on those four checks.
Michelle Langley, the cashier at Ben Venue Market who cashed the checks for Mr. Gray last May, testified that after the two checks had been returned from the bank, unpaid, marked as having a signature that didn’t match the two authorized signatures on file, Mr. Gray tried to cash a counter check for $ 100. She refused to cash it and called the Sheriff’s Office.
Dot Waller, owner of Ben Venue Market, attempted to contact Mr. Gray by calling two different phone numbers which he had written on the backs of the checks, but was unable to reach him due to disconnected phones.
Mr. Gray was picked up on the charges and interviewed by Major Rick MacWelch of the Sheriff’s Office. Major MacWelch said Mr. Gray told him, “If you drop the charges against me I will give you
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