The woman is accused of trying to cash a fake check, drug possession News

The 47-year-old woman is charged with attempting to cash a fake check and drug possession after Thursday’s failed attempt, according to a magistrate complaint filed in Guam Supreme Court.

Cheryl Moana Marie Borja was charged with forgery as a second-degree felony and possession of a Schedule II controlled substance as a third-degree felony, the complaint said.

Police responded to Rustan’s Foreign Exchange Department around 12:15 a.m. Thursday after an employee said a customer was trying to cash a fraudulent $1,300 check.

The employee told police the numbers on the check appeared to be incorrect, the bank to which the check purported to be, Oceanic Bank, had been out of business since 2009 and the company named on the check, Bolson Builder’s Guam, had been out of business since then. 2019, the complaint states.

Borch was detained in the store while an employee called the police.

Officers arrived and searched Borch for weapons, which led to the discovery of a plastic baggie containing a white crystalline substance in her left back pocket, documents state.

Borja was placed in a patrol car and taken to the precinct around 12:45 p.m., and upon arrival, officers found a glass pipe on the backboard near where Borja was sitting.

A field test conducted on a sample from the bag found in Borkha’s pocket tested positive for methamphetamine, the complaint said.

Borja agreed to speak with officers and admitted that the check she was trying to cash was fake and that a friend had given her a blank check and she had used a typewriter to type the information on the check, documents said.

Borja said she agreed to give her friend a portion of any cash she received from successfully cashing the fake checks, but it was her first time at Rustan’s, so she couldn’t get the money.

She also admitted to possessing a baggie of suspected methamphetamine in her pocket and a glass pipe found in the patrol car she pulled over at the station.

Borja was ordered held on $1,000 cash bail, according to documents from the attorney general’s office.