1.   Police said Bokin has also been repeatedly convicted of theft, possession of stolen property and writing bad checks.

2.   She was convicted of writing bad checks with intent to defraud.

3.   Although she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts, Mrs. Solarz appeared to have had a much broader pattern of writing bad checks.

4.   And around the country, an increasing number of criminals are cashing bad checks in supermarkets, department stores and other retail establishments.

5.   And indeed, both Robert and Sterling Granville Higgins had served time in jail in the United States, Robert for fraud and Sterling for issuing bad checks.

6.   And she made an arrangement with Fort McDowell to pay back the money she owed for writing bad checks.

7.   And three weeks since the standoff began between the FBI and the Montana Freemen, the anti-government gang who wrote bad checks and threatened critics.

8.   Art Schlichter got arrested again for writing bad checks.

9.   As part of a push to cut their losses on bad checks, some retailers are asking check-paying customers for their John Hancock.

10.   At least three federal appeals courts have adopted the position that debt-collectors seeking payment for bad checks must honor the debt-collection law.