On Monday, Crossville city officers were dispatched to a tractor equipment store in reference to a fraudulent check report.

When speaking with the manager of the business, he stated a man identified as Samuel Belvin came into the store and wanted to purchase a trailer. After showing him a Big Tex tandem axle utility trailer, Belvin wrote a check for the amount of $4,903 and left with the trailer and title in a spray-painted black Ford F-150.

The business then received a letter that the check which was in Mr. Belvin’s name and signed by him, was no good. The account the check had been written out of was closed. When the officer showed the victim a picture of Mr. Belvin, he was able to positively identify that that was the man who wrote him the check.

Mr. Belvin had been incarcerated in Jackson County and when talking with authorities, he had already pawned the trailer at a pawn shop in Cookeville for $1,000.

A detective out of Jackson County spoke with Mr. Belvin in jail who stated that he planned to go back and pay for the trailer after he got done on a job. He claimed his plan was also to get the trailer out of the pawn shop.

Warrants for Samuel Belvin have been written for Fraudulent Checks and Theft over $2,500.