Kansas man charged with con game, bogus check

 

October 10, 2018



An Alfalfa County man says he is out $10,506 of cow peas after a Kansas man picked up two loads and did not pay for them.

According to the court affidavit, Mark Cook, an Alfalfa County landowner, said he sold 25,120 pounds of cow peas to Jason Ryan Stucky subsequently picked up on May 16. The value of that load was $7,536. Cook said he and Stucky agreed payment would be made when the load was delivered to its destination or on the date a second load was picked up.

The affidavit states a truck owned by Sidwell Trucking from Kremlin, hired by Stucky, picked up the cow peas from Cook at his farm located 1.25 miles east of the intersection of SH8 and the Aline blacktop.

Between May 16 and July 5, Cook never received payment although he contacted Stucky on several occasions requesting the payment.

Around the first few days of July, Stucky contacted Cook wanting to purchase another load of cow peas. Cook agreed provided Stucky brought the $7,536 owed and paid for the second load when he picked it up.

On July 5, Stucky arrived himself in a pickup truck with a seed tender trailer. When Cook asked for the check for the first load, Stucky said he had mailed it a few days before and it should be in Cook’s mailbox when the mail was delivered later in the day, according to the affidavit. Cook accepted a check for the second load, but it was returned to Cook’s bank on two separate dates marked “insufficient funds.”

Cook says he never received the $7,536 payment from Stucky for the first load of cow peas.

Special Agent Paul Cornett of the investigative services unit of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, conducted an investigation.

On Oct. 4 in Alfalfa County Court, Jason Ryan Stucky, 39, of Valley Center, Kansas, was charged with felony value – false pretenses, bogus check, con game. This felony crime is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term not more than 10 years, or by a fine not to exceed $5,000, or both such fine and imprisonment. A warrant has been issued for

 

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