Gary Woman Facing Charges For Bad Checks

CROOKSTON, MN—A woman from Gary is facing felony charges for writing bad checks. Polk County prosecutors say 36-year-old Kelsey Rae Wastweet of Gary wrote bad checks to a Sacred Heart School fundraiser and a local sports equipment company while using an account that had been closed for fraud years earlier.  Two checks were written in July 2025 to Sacred Heart’s RaiseRight gift card fundraiser program.  The first was for $996 dollars; the second was for $9750.  Both checks bounced. Wastweet also placed online gift card orders last August totaling $8400.  East Grand Forks Police investigators found the BankMobile account she used to write the checks was closed for fraud back in 2018.  Then in February of this year, Crookston Police say Wastweet bought customized hockey equipment using a check for over $1900 using the same closed BankMobile account.  Each of the three felony counts carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $10,000 fine, or both.  Court records show this isn’t Wastweet’s first go-around with the legal system.  In February 2019, she was convicted of three counts of felony counterfeiting in North Dakota.