
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 12, 1994                   TAG: 9403120189
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: todd jackson STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SALEM BANK-FRAUD SUSPECT ARRESTED

A Salem man was arrested by the FBI on bank fraud charges Friday afternoon after a chase in Roanoke.

FBI agents, along with Roanoke and Salem police, approached Paul W. Charman at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the United Parcel Service facility on Thirlane Road Northwest, according to a news release from the FBI.

The suspect fled in a truck. He was caught a short time later, police said.

Stanley Klein, special agent in charge of the Richmond Division of the FBI, said Charman was accused of taking part in a complicated scheme using counterfeit checks and bogus checking accounts to defraud banks in the Roanoke area and in nearby states.

Charman, who operates a trophy and engraving business in Salem, was being held in the Roanoke City Jail pending an appearance before a U.S. magistrate, Klein said.

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