A Cannon County man recently discovered a family member had written over $1000 worth of checks and forged his signature on all of them. According to Cannon County Sheriff’s Department Reports, Don Randell Taylor told deputies that he stopped by his bank and was informed that someone had written 8 checks signing his name to the checks and cashed them for over $1000. Mr. Taylor stated that his son Ethan Taylor wrote the checks out to himself for currency. Investigators went to the Kennedy Creek Road residence and placed Ethan into custody. While doing so they looked through his wallet and found a signed check that Ethan allegedly admitted forging his father’s name to. Ethan told detectives that after he cashed all the checks he used the money to purchase narcotics from a person in Liberty. Ethan was charged with 8 counts of forgery. The Sheriff’s Department contacted the Dekalb County Sheriff’s Department to assist with the theft charges and was advised that if Ethan had been charged with forgery that the Dekalb County Sheriff’s office would be unable to charge for theft due to forgery being a theft. Ethan Taylor will answer to the charges on October 6th in Cannon County General Sessions Court.
