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Man nabbed for forging checks is repeat offender
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Posted on Nov 28 2005
Police arrested over the weekend a 27-year-old man who allegedly forged checks which were among those stolen during a recent burglary at the Post Office in Capitol Hill.
Gary C. Pangelinan was served with an arrest warrant on Saturday at 3:17am. He was detained for theft and forgery.
During a bail hearing yesterday, Superior Court Associate Judge David A. Wiseman imposed a $5,000 cash bail for Pangelinan’s temporary liberty.
Preliminary hearing was set for Dec. 6 at 9am.
Detective Patrick Earl Maanao stated in court papers that a woman called the Department of Public Safety on Nov. 16, 2005, complaining that her checks were possibly stolen and forged.
Maanao said during investigation he learned that one of the woman’s checks was cashed on Nov. 1, 2005 at the First Hawaiian Bank.
The victim originally wrote the check to Pentagon Federal Credit Union in the U.S. mainland for her credit card account and mailed it on Oct. 26, 2005.
The victim was surprised when she received her bank statement, which showed that the check was paid out to Pangelinan. She also expressed concern about the other check, which she mailed on that same day upon learning that the postal office in Capitol Hill was burglarized.
Police gathered that the postal office was burglarized on Oct. 27, 2005, a day after the victim mailed her checks.
That same afternoon, investigators learned that Pangelinan was just released from jail for allegedly stealing and forging checks.
Maanao said police arrested Pangelinan on Nov. 10 during which he confessed to altering checks.
Maanao noticed that the signature of Pangelinan in the woman’s check was similar to the other checks that the defendant previously altered.
