TRENTON — A 61-year-old woman was arraigned Friday on five charges of fraud and identify theft for writing checks in another woman’s identity and making fake licenses.
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Julia Loretta Graham of Detroit was arrested and arraigned after a 43-year-old Trenton woman filed an identity theft complaint Dec. 29, telling police that $3,000 had been used in checks in her name.
By the time Graham was arrested, she had used checks totaling $6,000 in the Trenton woman’s name.
Graham was arraigned before 33rd District Court Judge Michael McNally.
She was charged with three counts of uttering and publishing, each a 14-year felony.
She also was charged with identify theft, a five-year felony, and possession of a stolen insurance certificate, a five-year felony.
She is being charged as a habitual offender because she has been convicted of crimes three prior times.
McNally set her bond at $75,000/10 percent. A preliminary examination of the evidence against her is scheduled for 9 a.m. Jan. 17.
Graham used the checks at several stores, according to police. She made a fake license with her picture and the name of the other woman to use with the checks.
Graham told police she made all of the items herself, using the Internet to get the other woman’s personal information. Continued…
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Graham used the checks at Pearle Vision in Warren, an eye-care facility, police said. She had to return to pick up a pair of glasses and Trenton police arrested her at the business.
Detective Sgt. Mark Enright said Graham explained to police the process she went through to make the fake checks and IDs.
