From the courts: District Court

A Box Elder man received two years probation for trying to cash a fake $2,000 check.

Phillip Sutherland, born in 1973, received a two-year commitment to the Department of Corrections, all suspended, for felony forgery.

A man called police March 10, 2012, to report a man was trying to use a fake check. Officers responded to the scene and determined the check was fake.

“The paper was not the usual kind of paper used for checks,” court charging documents say. “The paper was very thin, and the edges clearly uneven, as it appeared that someone used scissors to cut the edges.”

The amount of the check was $2,079. Sutherland’s name was typed where the name of the person being issued the check would normally be and there were two names where the authorized signature would be.

“The fake check clearly appeared to have been photo copied,” documents say.

Sutherland told officers he had a friend make the check. Although he did not want to reveal the friend’s name, he did say the check was made by his cousin who just got out of prison. Sutherland said he signed the two signatures on the check.