LINCOLN, Maine — A former Burlington resident will be extradited from Oklahoma within the next two months to face charges that he alleged passed more than $11,500 in bad checks to businesses in four towns in 2014, police said Thursday.
Anthony Scamman, 43, was indicted by a Penobscot County grand jury in February 2014 on a single charge of negotiating a worthless instrument, police and newspaper records indicate.
The charge resulted from a total of five bad checks allegedly passed in Bangor, Houlton, Howland and Lincoln that totalled more than $11,500, said Detective Mark Fucile, spokesman for the Lincoln Police Department.
The bad checks were allegedly used to purchase a 2010 Honda Fury from Richard’s Sport Shop. The rest came from equipment or services purchased at Lincoln Computers or Mainely Rent to Own, Fucile said.
The Howland town office also claimed a bad check used to purchase a vehicle registration. Single bad checks were also used to buy items in Houlton and Bangor. A list of that equipment and its costs was not available on Thursday, he said.
Fucile said that he received word from a detective working in the prosecutor’s office at Penobscot Judicial Center on Saturday that Scamman had been apprehended in Fayer, Oklahoma and was being held at Beckham County Jail.