HPD: Man tries to buy Bentleys with fake $500K check
HPD
Police allege that Walter Allen was trying to use a check from a Federal Reserve bank.
A Beaumont man is in jail after trying to buy two luxury automobiles from Post Oak Motor Cars Friday with a $500,000 check from the Federal Reserve bank in Atlanta.
Walter Allen Jr. used his actual driver’s license, brought in a notary public to sign the papers, and a fake check to try to buy two Bentleys: a $245,000 Bentley GTC and a 2010 Bentley Flying Spur valued at $213,000.
Allen made the deal and signed the check over on Friday afternoon. Managers at the dealership became suspicious because the Federal Reserve Bank usually deals in wire transfers, not checks.
They asked Allen to return after 5 p.m. to pick up the cars.
When he arrived about 7 p.m., Allen signed the final papers and Houston police officers arrested him on charges of theft of more than $200,000, a first-degree felony.
Allen’s court-appointed attorney, Jerald Graber, said he is continuing to investigate the allegations.
“There is not any evidence that whoever passed the check, ever took possession of the two vehicles, so at most it’s an attempted theft,” Graber said.
Allen appeared in state District Judge Vanessa Velasquez’s courtroom today. He remains in jail in lieu of $30,000 in bail.
