Three members tied to a controversial Nuwaubian
Nation religious sect are being charged with forging fake certified checks to
purchase two homes in Stone Mountain, Ga.
DeKalb County police claim the men planned to use the
checks to buy new land to reestablish a home base for the Yamassee
Nuwaubian Mour/Moore Tribal
Community. Their actions would have defrauded the U.S. Postal Service and John
Wills Homes, which owns the Bibb County property.
Police said the men -- William Carroll, also known as "Nayyaa
Rafl El," Robert C. Dukes, also known as "Nayya Elisha EL" and Darius
Sampson, also known as "KhuFu" -- used
documents in the form of certified checks that they created called
"certified tender of payment certificate" and "statement of
assignment in accounts."
The allegedly fraudulent checks were created after Carroll filed a lien for
$283,900,000 with the Clerk of Superior Court in DeKalb
County against the U.S. Postal Service payroll bank account/assets and real
property.
An investigation revealed that two of the suspects are post office employees.
Police have not specified which two they are.
All three men are charged with theft by deception and identity fraud, police
said.
The trio is believed to be affiliated with the United Nuwaubian
Nation of Moors in Putnam County, which was raided last year on suspicions of
minors being transported across state lines for sex. Police arrested the
group's leader -- 36-year-old took Dwight D. York -- and his longtime
associate, 33-year-old Kathy Johnson.