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Grants Pass Police jailed a man for multiple fraud crimes after he attempted to use two people's identities to cash a check belonging to one of them at a local bank.

The Police Department reports 30-year-old David Araya Rodriguez was arrested for the incident on Tuesday at 12:55 p.m..

Police said Rodriguez used the identities of two people to try to cash a $600 check at Rogue Credit Union on SE 7th Street. The suspect used one person's driver's license in an attempt to cash the check, which had been stolen out of the other person's vehicle two days ago.

Rodriguez admitted to officers that he unlawfully entered the victim's vehicle and stole the check. He told officers he found the other person's driver's license in a box on NE B Street and took it.

Following the investigation, Rodriguez was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for two counts of Felony Identity Theft plus single counts of 2nd-Degree Forgery, Attempted 2nd-Degree Theft and Unlawful Entry into a Motor Vehicle. He was being held without bail pending his court arraignment at 1:30 this afternoon.