SAXONBURG — A suspected serial check bouncer Wednesday waived his preliminary hearing on the latest in a mounting list of charges.

Middlesex Township police this week arrested Kenneth Alan Long, 42, of Butler, accusing him of passing two bad checks Oct. 14 and 15 at the Nursery Park Gulf gas station on Route 8. The checks totaled $151.64.

On Oct. 21 Long admitted he took the checks that belonged to his mother, and forged her signature, according to courts documents.

He found the checks in his mother's house, police said, after she was taken to a nursing home. In all, documents said, he acknowledged writing 30 checks on his mother's account.

"(Long) said he wrote checks for cigarettes, beer and drugs," a police affidavit said.

District Judge Sue Haggerty on Wednesday arraigned Long on two counts each of forgery, bad checks, unauthorized use of an access device, theft by deception and receiving stolen property.

The defendant waived his case to Butler County Court. He remains in the county prison on $2,880 bail.

Long already is awaiting possible trial in the county stemming from three bad check cases that Butler Township police filed in September.

Additionally, preliminary hearings for the defendant are pending in connection with bad checks charges filed by Butler police in August and by Buffalo Township police in October.

County court records show that Long has two prior convictions for bad checks.