Martin County - Monday April 8, 2022: 24-year old Tyrone George Elijah Hyatt III is being held on a $82,000 bond on allegations that twice, on the same day, at the same bank, he's accused of attempting to deposit, and then withdraw, part of separate fraudulent $29,000 checks against unsuspecting victim accounts.
According to a post on the Martin County Sheriff's Facebook page Hyatt tried to conduct the transaction from his car at a TD Bank drive-thru. Both times he sought to deposit $14,000 and asked for $15,000 back in cash. The first time, inexplicably, he drove off, before the teller could advise him that the account had been frozen.
Again, inexplicably, Hyatt came back a short time later and made another attempt to deposit a different fraudulent $29,000 check against a different account with another request to get $15,000 cash back. Bank employees immediately called the MC Sheriff Office.
Hyatt attempted to get away by hitting reverse but he backed into a utility box, and was boxed in by a patrol car. Inside Hyatt's rental car, MC Sheriff Deputies found found a printer, multiple identifications, stolen credit cards and blank checks.
According to the MC Sheriff Facebook post, Hyatt, a resident of of Elmhurst New York, claimed that all of those items were already inside the rental car when he got it, and he he also claimed that he was cashing the checks for someone else, but he didn’t know that person’s name or how to reach them.
Thousands of dollars of cash was also found in the vehicle which Hyatt said was his. Deputies seized the money and have placed it in evidence.