My question involves collection proceedings in the State of: Washington
An expired drivers license was stolen from me last fall, and a criminal went out and printed phony checks and passed them at about 20 stores in my area. 18 out of the 20 stores have written off the debt after I provided affadavit of forgery and police report number to them. 2 stores (one agency) are still hounding me to pay the debt. I cannot meet their demands that they have given me, and wondering how to proceed. I refuse to pay for the groceries used by the people who stole from me.
The demands by the credit agency are:
1) Provide a affadavit of forgery from the bank that issued the checks. I cannot do this as no bank issued the check, they were phony checks printed by criminals. The bank whose name appears on the check has refused to help as they do not own the accounts listed at the bottom.
2) Provide a copy of the police report showing the checks are stolen. I provided the police report number, but the last time I requested the criminal investigation was active and the city refused to release a report. The bill collectors laughed when I told them this and insinuated that I was a liar. In any event, the passed checks were not stolen from me as they were printed by the criminals - only the expired drivers license was stolen.
3) Prove my innocense. This is laughable - on the phone, they actually told me that I have to prove that I am innocent, and since I have not done so yet, the debt is still mine to pay.
4) Have the police add special phrases to their police report, like "drivers license was used to print phony checks". Sorry - the police report is not written by me, I can't ask them to add special phrases to it.
The only thing that I can do is request the police report again, which I did so today, and will provide that to them.
Is there anything else I can do to get them to clear the debt? Clearly, they are being incredibly difficult because they want me to pay the debt rather than write it off.
They refuse to put their demands in writing.

