Police seek suspect accused of cashing stolen checks worth $32K in metro area

Police are searching for a woman suspected of passing stolen and forged checks in the metro Atlanta area for more than $32,000.

Athens-Clarke County officials released photos of the woman they say cashed the checks at locations in Buford, Dacula, Norcross, Kennesaw, Woodstock, Douglasville, Conyers and Covington. The checks and a driver’s license were taken from a purse stolen out of a car in Clarke just days earlier, authorities said.

The purse was stolen from a car in Southeast Clarke Park on Jan. 31, police said. The suspect began cashing the checks two days later, between Wednesday and Thursday of last week, according to authorities.