Two males are dealing with jail time for allegedly utilizing faux $100 payments at a number of companies in north suburban Vernon Hills.
Filbert Elonge, 25, of Arlington Heights, was charged with 4 felony counts of forgery, the Lake County state’s lawyer’s workplace stated. Vernon Taylor, a 25-year-old from Chicago, was charged with two counts of the identical.
Employees at a enterprise within the 700 block of North Milwaukee Avenue referred to as Vernon Hills police about four p.m. Monday to report that somebody had tried utilizing a faux $100 invoice, prosecutors stated.
Officers stopped the car described by workers shortly after on Townline Road and located receipts from companies Elonge and Taylor had beforehand visited, prosecutors stated. They then went again to these companies and located further faux payments.
Elonge was held on $30,000 bond whereas Taylor was held on $20,000, prosecutors stated. They are due in court docket August 1 and August 2, respectively.
If convicted, they may serve two-to-five years in jail, prosecutors stated.