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Ice Cream Truck Proves Too Hot A Vehicle For Suspect

By Media General News Service
Published: December 17, 2009

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. -- It was almost a cool getaway, but in the end it was the ice cream truck that eventually led deputies to her.

Now 22-year-old Christierae Ogden faces a felony charge of passing a forged check. She was arrested by deputies Tuesday at the Land O' Lakes Jail, where she was being held on previous charges.

On Nov. 5, Ogden stole a blank check from her grandfather and then wrote it out for $350, a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report states. She asked an acquaintance, an ice-cream truck driver, to take her to the bank. She told Michael Freyn, according to reports, that she would pay him $20 for gas.

Freyn, 26, drove Ogden to the Bank of America, 45339 BarteltRoad, where Ogden then asked him to cash the check, the report states. She didn't have a driver's license, she told him. They both went into the bank.

While a teller acted like she was cashing the check, she called deputies. Bank tellers knew Ogden's grandfather, Robert Dreher, had had trouble with her before.

About 6:30 that night, a deputy spotted the ice-cream truck and pulled him over. He asked him about Ogden. Freyn told him he ran into Ogden, whom he hardly knows while visiting a friend at Bahamas Bronze tanning in Holiday. She asked him for a ride to her house because she had to get a check from her grandfather to pay for her bail. Freyn, according to a report, told deputies she conned him into cashing the check.

Freyn has not been charged in the case.

Ogden is being held with bail set at $5,000 in this case.

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