Kevin Phillips

WARSAW — A 45-year-old Chicago man has been booked in the county jail for defrauding a local financial institution.

Kevin Phillips, 25, 8925 Parnell St., Chicago, Ill., was booked at 7:17 p.m. Thursday, on two counts of fraud on a financial institution, both level 5 felonies. He is being held on $10,000 surety and $250 cash bond.

Court documents, filed in Kosciusko County Superior Court 1, state on Aug. 14, officials at Lake City Bank notified the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department regarding two fraudulent cash advances and two attempted fraudulent cash advances. The acts were committed by two individuals operating the same vehicle.

Allegedly on July 29, Phillips used a fake credit card, with stolen numbers, at a Lake City Bank branch to receive a cash advance of $825. On that same day he used another fake credit card, with stolen numbers, at a branch to receive $825.

Police used Phillips’ driver’s license number from the cash disbursement receipt to obtain his photo. It was confirmed he was the same person in a bank surveillance video.

On Aug. 14, another individual driving the same colored vehicle, with allegedly the same license plate number, attempted twice to use a fraudulent visa card at a bank branch to obtain cash advances. Each time the attempt was for $820 and each time it failed to go through.

Again police used the individual’s Illinois driver’s license to obtain a photo to confirm he was the same individual attempting to make the fraudulent cash advance based on the bank surveillance video.