A woman with a history of financial fraud charges was arrested again Aug. 5 after allegedly attempting to cash stolen checks.

The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has charged Joni Kriston McDonald, 27, of McBrothers Drive, with four counts of obtaining property under false pretenses, one count of attempting to obtain property under false pretense, four counts of larceny of chose in action, four counts of forgery of instrument, four counts of uttering forged instruments, and one count of financial card theft — all felonies — according to court documents.

The stolen checks cashed by McDonald were worth $110, $210, $200, and $140. She was booked into the Richmond County Jail under a $10,000 bond with an Aug. 17 court date.

McDonald’s bond was modified to allow her mother to pick her up from the jail in order to take her directly to Bethany House in Moore County, a nonprofit charity that provides a “sober living environment” for women in recovery from substance abuse.

McDonald will be required by the court to stay at Bethany House until the completion of the program, and should she leave or attempt to leave, her bond will be raised to $25,000 and an order for arrest will be issued, according to court documents.

This isn’t McDonald’s first arrest on similar charges. In April 2013, the Daily Journal reported that she was charged with obtaining property under false pretense, forgery and uttering. In June 2015, the Daily Journal reported that she was facing 31 felony counts of obtaining property under false pretense stemming from separate arrests.

McDonald also faced misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia and simple possession of a Schedule II controlled substance in 2015, but was never convicted of any of the aforementioned charges.

Online records with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction show McDonald was convicted in March 2016 on two misdemeanor counts of common law forgery, receiving probation.

All defendants facing criminal charges are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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By Gavin Stone

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