Crime & Safety
Man Forged Check of Good Samaritan, Police Say
Thomas Frederick Hosler, 42, of Lehighton, is facing charges after allegedly forging and cashing a $250 check of a Nazareth resident.
A Lehighton man is accused of forging and cashing a $250 check of a Nazareth resident who allowed him to live in his house after he said he had nowhere to go.
Court records say Thomas Frederick Hosler, 42, lived with the Nazareth man for about two weeks on Evergreen Street before stealing the man’s check, forging the man’s name, filling in the amount of $250 and cashing it at a Bank of America in Whitehall Township on Jan. 30.
Hosler met the man at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg when both men were patients there, the records say. The man invited Hosler to live in his home “after finding out from [Hosler] that he had no other place to reside.”
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The records list Hosler’s address as being in Lehighton, Carbon County.
Hosler was charged with forgery, theft by unlawful taking, theft by deception, receiving stolen property and bad checks. He was arraigned Monday afternoon by District Judge John Capobianco of Nazareth and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $2,500 bail.