Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, September 10, 1993 TAG: 9309100258
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG LENGTH: Short
Tech police charged Solomon Botsi Dadzie, 19, of Alexandria, on Tuesday.
Tech officials gave this account of events leading to Dadzie's arrest:
On Aug. 27 during express student check-in, someone picked up a student loan check made payable to another student.
When the student to whom the loan belonged went to pick up the check last week, he was told it already had been claimed.
The $2,500 check had been deposited into an account with the Virginia Tech Credit Union at Squires Student Center.
Dadzie was charged Tuesday after police staked out the credit union when workers there told them the person who had opened the account was coming in to pick up an automatic teller machine card.
Dadzie, a sophomore who lives on campus, is accused of representing himself to be the recipient of the student loan check by presenting an altered Tech identification card, said Dave Nutter, a Tech spokesman.
The check was proceeds from a Stafford Student Loan, Nutter said. Part of the money had been spent.
Dadzie was released on a personal recognizance bond. A court date was not available.
by CNB