Tenn. Hot Check Writer Robs Peter to Pay Paul
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From Times Wire Reports
When a judge ordered a Tennessee woman to make good on $1,100 in bad checks, she employed her own brand of creative financing and robbed a bank, authorities said.
Paige Morphis, 29, left the courthouse after a hearing on a bad check charge, used a handgun to hold up a bank in her nearby hometown of Rives, Tenn., and fled into a cornfield, authorities said.
Morphis eluded a search party, returned to the courthouse and paid off the bad checks, authorities said. She was arrested at her home, and about $7,000 left from the bank’s money was confiscated.
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