From the Courts - State District Court: Man sentenced on third set of check forging charges

Zachary Dale Jones was sentenced in a plea agreement to three years probation on check forging charges, to run after sentences on two other check convictions and another case from Blaine County.

Jones was charged Dec. 19 with felony forgery by common scheme after a man reported he had been writing checks off the man’s account.

He pleaded guilty May 18 in a plea agreement and state District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced him in state District Court in Havre July 6 to three years with the state Department of Corrections, all suspended and with credit for 54 days served, to run after sentences from cases filed in 2018.

Snipes Ruiz also ordered him to pay $3,375 in restitution plus a 10 percent fee and to pay $80 in fees and surcharges.

May 21, state District Judge Jon Oldenburg revoked suspended sentences in two 2018 cases and sentenced Jones to three years with the state Department of Corrections and ordered him to be screened and placed in treatment for one of the 2018 cases and sentenced him to four years with DOC on the second 2018 case.