Valdez Star Continued

Valdez Star Continued: "Grand Jury Indicts Valdez Man in Forgery Case
By Lee Revis
Editor, Valdez Star
PALMER- A Grand Jury in Palmer returned a five count indictment against Jeffery �Todd� Kelly on July 13, after the state was challenged to prove there was enough evidence to support a complaint filed with the District Attorney�s office by Valdez Police late last spring alleging Kelly had committed forgery and criminal simulation. Originally charged with one count of Forgery in the Second Degree and one count of Criminal Simulation, both Class C felonies, Kelly is now charged with two counts of Forgery in the Second Degree, two counts of Felony Criminal Simulation and one count of Theft in the Second Degree. All five are Class C felonies.
Kelly plead Not Guilty to all five counts against him in front of Judge Dan Schally on July 18, 2005. Judge Schally accepted the plea which preserves Kelley�s right to a trial by jury. The case will next come up in court in this August.
Though the dates stated in the original complaint filed by the police department conflict with the dates of the indictments, it is alleged that Kelly went to the First National Bank of Alaska with a check made out for $9,960 last spring, telling the manager that is was for stocks he had sold and that the check was good because he had already cashed one for the same amount. The check was later determined to be counterfeit, at which time Kelly had allegedly spent approximately $6,365 of the funds deposited into his account.
It is also alleged that he had earlier tried to deposit a similar check into his account for the amount of $30,000, but he was told by bank personnel that the check would have to �be sent in for collection,� according to the police complaint.
The complaint also alleges that Kelly confessed to Investigator Dan Mott of the Valdez Police Department that he "