Clackamas County deputies are asking the public to help identify a woman accused of cashing a counterfeit check at a Wilsonville credit union using a stolen driver license and bank card. New photos of the woman were just added to the sheriff’s office’s #CanYouIDMe webpage, and investigators say the case stretches across three Willamette Valley counties.
According to the Clackamas Sheriff, the pictured woman fraudulently used a member’s driver license and bank card to cash a counterfeit check at the Oregon State Credit Union in Wilsonville on June 26. The sheriff’s office also says she reportedly attempted to cash a counterfeit check at the credit union’s Woodburn branch that same day. The victim’s identification documents were reportedly stolen in Independence, Oregon, according to the agency.
The case, logged under CCSO case number 26-012632, involves suspected identity theft, forgery, and theft by deception, per the sheriff’s office. Oregon State Credit Union, founded in 1954 in Corvallis, operates branches across western Oregon, including the Wilsonville location on SW Gwen Drive and the Woodburn branch on Mount Jefferson Avenue named in the incident, according to Oregon State Credit Union.
A Trail Spanning Three Counties
The alleged scheme traces a path along the Interstate 5 corridor, starting with the theft of identification documents in Independence, in Polk County, before the suspect allegedly tried to cash checks at credit union branches in Woodburn, in Marion County, and Wilsonville, in Clackamas County, according to regional mapping data cited in the case background. That kind of multi-county footprint is consistent with how check fraud schemes typically unfold, according to federal advisories from the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which note that such schemes often begin with the physical theft of mail or wallet documents that perpetrators then use to impersonate victims at bank and credit union tellers, per the Internet Crime Complaint Center…