Most small business owners operate on a slim profit margin.  They must contend with rent or mortgage payments on their building, insurance, taxes, ever-increasing product costs and numerous other costs before they can make a profit.  When customers buy products and then pay with a worthless check, the business owner suffers.

 Nineteen persons have been identified as issuing worthless checks to parish businesses.  Those persons, their last known address, and the total amount of their worthless checks, are:

Amy Sharp Lee, 44

212 Robin Hood Road, Covington

$65.00

Brittany Beard, 27

48256 Highway 10, Franklinton

$130.00

Darren R. Bickham, 41

23793 Highway 430, Franklinton

$45.00

Lee Lewis, 51

25134 Charlie Lewis Road, Franklinton

$823.30

Jamie Webb, 39

45267 Jamieson Creek Road, Franklinton

$1,296.00

Grant K. Judy

1110 West 15th Street, Bogalusa

$218.99

Jerry Johnson, 44

805 Wilmuth Street, Bogalusa

$39.52

Hannah L. Crain, 27

29282 Highway 225, Franklinton

$195.31

Dwayne Rodrigue, 39

424 Superior Avenue, Bogalusa

$252.60

Jimmy Catchings, 34

40292 Highway 38, Mt. Hermon

$150.00

Lillie R. Broadway (Vogt), 49

700 Superior Avenue, Bogalusa

$70.00

Kenya Carter, 41

625 Huron Avenue, Bogalusa

Undetermined amount

Sandra Wilson Ratcliff, 52

27384 Harvey Road, Franklinton

$500.00

David Rogers, 47

36596 Chapel Hill Road, Franklinton

$125.00

Helen Barnes (no picture available)

71291 Union Church Road, Kentwood

$580.00

Vernon Freeman, 65

430 Huron Avenue, Bogalusa

$150.00

Rebecca M. Magee, 63 (no picture available)

1580 Lynwood Drive, Bogalusa

$970.00

Michelle Yarbrough, 32

945 Avenue H, Bogalusa

$166.10

Shernell Jackson, 42

1318 Lona Rester Place, Bogalusa

$113.00

 Washington Parish Sheriff Randy Seal expressed frustration over the number of back checks being given to parish businesses.  “Our parish business owners are trying to make an honest living providing products to parish citizens.  Worthless checks hurt them as well as every honest consumer.  We have active warrants on each of these individuals and will gladly arrest them and put them in jail.  If any person on this list reads this article, I suggest they turn themselves in immediately.  Otherwise, we will introduce them to handcuffs when we find them.”