Amonte Dominic McKennie, 25, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor for allegedly using false information to open a bank account at Sullivan Bank, 1 W. Fifth St., in Eureka, court records show.
McKennie was charged with two counts of forgery, each one a class D felony punishable by up to seven years in prison, and identity theft, a class A misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000, according to court documents.
McKennie was arrested on April 27 and has since been released on a $60,000 cash-only bond, court records show.
He was arrested at Sullivan Bank when he returned to the Eureka bank after the account he opened the previous day was frozen. When McKennie opened a bank account April 26 with a $100 cash deposit, he provided a North Carolina driver’s license with another man’s name and opened the business account under the name Mana Supply Co., Eureka Police reported.
According to the probable-cause statement in the case, a bank employee was suspicious of McKennie and called Eureka Police. When officers checked the driver’s license used to open the account, it turned out to belong to someone else.
When McKennie was arrested, he allegedly had a driver’s license, a Social Security card and other documents with information that belonged to the North Carolina man. McKennie also had his own driver’s license and documents with his personal information on them, the report said.
In addition, he had several business cards from numerous banks in the St. Louis area, the report said.
McKennie allegedly admitted to investigators that he opened the account at the Eureka bank in another person’s name because he owed money to other banks and would not be able to open an account using his name. He allegedly told police he got the North Carolina man’s driver’s license and other documents from someone in Florida but would not say who provided him with the North Carolina man’s information, according to the report.