Co-operation Between Loganville, Snellville and Monroe Police Department Nets 5 In Suspected Forgery Ring

Cooperation between the Snellville, and Monroe police departments netted an alleged forgery ring operating in the area. Two Loganville residents are being held without bond in connection with the crime.

According to a report by Capt. Harold Thomas of the Snellville Police Department, officers were first alerted to the operation when they were called to a fraud in progress at the Chase Bank on Scenic Highway in Snellville. Officers got there in time to arrest April Pugh, of Monroe, and Jason White, of Tennessee, for attempting to pass a forged check using a stolen Indiana driver’s license.

Information obtained at that time led to Loganville police officers obtaining a search warrant and searching the Southfork Drive residence of Leonard Cox and Lamonica Irving. Although they were not home at the time, Krystle Lynn Day of Pine Log Road, Monroe, was arrested after being located in a car with the juvenile daughter of one of the suspects. She was arrested and charged with being party to a crime. The juvenile was turned over to another family member.

Police learned Day had left her two small children in a motel room in Monroe and Monroe police were called in to help locate them. Loganville residents Cox and Irving were finally located when witnesses reported seeing them walking on Highway 11 in Monroe with the children. According to Thomas, Cox, Irving and the children were eventually located in an apartment in Monroe. The Walton County Department of Family and Children’s Services were called and the children were turned over to a family member.

In total, five people were arrested and charged with felonies in connection with the crime. Cox and Irving remain in the Gwinnett County Detention Center, with no bond, charged with first-degree forgery. White remains in the detention center on $7,900 bond and Pugh bonded out the same day on $5,700 bond. They both also face first-degree forgery charges. Day, who is charged with being a party to a crime, remains in the detention center on $5,700 bond.

Thomas said there are other similar cases been investigated with regard to the defendants and further charges are expected to be filed.

“We know there are more cases, we just don’t know how many at this time,” Thomas said.