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 sentence...