(SLIDELL)---Slidell Police say that an alert pair of bank employees led to the arrest of a man and a woman from Mississippi on various charges after they allegedly tried to cash a stolen check at a Slidell bank.

Slidell Police Capt. Kevin Foltz reports that 34-year-old Frederick N. Campbell and 29-year-old Anisha A. Gibson, both of Magnolia, Mississippi, have been charged with attempted theft over $500, identity theft, bank fraud, forgery, monetary instrument abuse, possession of stolen things, and exploitation of the infirmed.

The arrests occurred shortly after 11:19 a.m. on Monday, July 7, at a Slidell bank in the 1200 block of Gause Blvd. Capt. Foltz says that bank officials told officers that the two suspects, later identified as Campbell and Gibson, were apparently attempting to cash a stolen check. He says that bank employees told officers that a teller noted that the name on the check was different from the signature, and that a previously cashed check on that account had a different name and signature from the one the suspects were trying to cash.

Capt. Foltz says that bank employees contacted the account owner, who told them that she was missing two checks, one the pair was attempting to cash in Slidell and another that had apparently already been cashed in McComb and was written to Campbell. According to Capt. Foltz, the victim said she remembered Gibson from the moving company that moved the victim recently from Mississippi to Louisiana.

Capt. Foltz says that if both are convicted on all charges, they could face up to 60 years in prison at hard labor or a fine of slightly more than $1,000,000, or both.

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