BUTLER TWP — Township police this week filed charges against a Butler couple in separate check fraud cases that dealt with more than $3,000.

Michael Musick Jr., 42, and Michelle L. Kaiser, 41, allegedly bounced a combined 36 checks during two months earlier this year at the Get-Go store on North Main Street in Butler Township, police said.

District Judge Kevin O’Donnell on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for both defendants.

Musick, according to court documents, on March 1 opened a checking account with a $50 deposit at the First Niagara Bank branch in Butler. Less than two weeks later, the account was overdrawn.

The bank closed the account on June 18. But by then, police said, it was overdrawn by $2,012.73.

Butler Township Police Detective Sgt. Nathan Teslik in September obtained a search warrant to examine Musick’s checking account records.

A review of those records, documents said, showed the defendant over 23 days in March and April passed 22 checks on this account that did not have sufficient funds.

The bogus checks were issued in amounts between $16.50 and $123.17, police said, and were used to buy merchandise at the Get-Go worth a total of $1,665.90.

Musick is charged with 22 counts each of theft by deception and bad checks.

Kaiser, in her check fraud scheme, police said, obtained cash and merchandise from the same store with bad checks passed in March and April.

The checks were withdrawn on accounts at two banks, First National and First Niagara.

Teslik in September obtained search warrants to comb the records of Kaiser’s checking accounts.

The review, according to court documents, showed she opened her First National account on Oct. 26, 2011. By the end of January, the account was overdrawn by $800.

She opened the First Niagara account on July 1, 2011. By Jan., 13, police said, the account was overdrawn by $125.

Kaiser allegedly failed to respond to both banks’ attempts to get her to make the accounts whole. First Niagara closed her account on Jan. 17. First National closed her account on March 28.

The defendant, however, between March 26 and April 22 issued 13 checks drawn on her closed First Niagara account to the Get-Go. The checks were for a combined $1,015.56, documents said.

On April 6 and 7, police said, she wrote five checks on her closed First National account that were passed at the Get-Go for a total of $457.94.

Kaiser is charged with 18 counts each of theft by deception and bad checks.