My question involves criminal law for the state of: Oklahoma & Colorado & maybe Texas
My brother naively (and without asking advice from anyone first) loaned $700 to a friend. This friend supposedly has lost her ID and can't pay her rent with a check (why??), and without an ID she can't withdraw money from her bank account (and her bank is not local to boot, it's in Texas). The friend wrote my brother a check for the $700, he cashed it and gave her the money. Stupid, right?
So, a few days pass and she fails to pay him back as promised. Then the check is returned to my brother as "Refer to Maker".
She claims she is transferring her money to a new local bank. She writes/obtains a check for $800 (with her ex-husband's name on it) and deposits it into her new account. She sends my brother a photo (via Facebook) of a Notice of Hold (or something like that) from her new bank account to show him that that $800 will be available on March 25th. The notice says the $800 check is on an 11 day hold due to the account being less than 30 days old.
So my brother calls the bank in Texas (where the check my brother has is from), they can not find any account with her name on it. They do find a closed account for her (with her first ex husband's last name) and her current boyfriend. The check has her current name (which is her 2nd ex husband's last name), her exhusband, and her current live-in boyfriend on it, as well as her current home address in Oklahoma. But the bank has no record of this account existing......Does that mean this check is fake? I'm assuming so.....
So then my brother calls the bank in Oklahoma (the new account). They says there is not enough money in the account to cover a check for $800.....obviously.
Now my brother is ready to contact the DA. I started googling her names (since there are 3 different last names with her) and sure enough she is wanted in Colorado for Failure to Comply (Theft).
What action should my brother take next? Contact the local DA about this check fraud? Or contact the DA in CO? Any other advice......Thanks in advance.
At least my brother isn't so naive anymore.......He says he won't ever loan money to friends again. I hope he's right.

