JACKSON TWP — Police have charged a Rochester man with fraudulently cashing a check for more than $1,000 at a township store.

Officers filed charges Monday after responding to the Bi-Lo in Northgate Plaza on Nov. 13 to investigate the case.

Staff at the store told police that a man identified as Robert C. Rinehart III, 35, of Rochester, Pa., cashed a check for $1,072.50 in late October. The check was later returned from First National Bank as voided, documents state.

Officers reportedly confirmed a picture from the store's video surveillance system that showed a man resembling Rinehart. They also discovered that the check appeared to have been issued through a bill pay service on behalf of Sterling Property LLC, documents state.

The company's president, David Kowalski, reportedly told officers that a check in the amount of $1,072.50 had been issued to Rinehart in 2016 for work he had done for the company and that Rinehart reported it had not been delivered. The company reissued the check and advised Rinehart that the first check had been canceled and to destroy it if was later delivered.

Rinehart contracted with Sterling Property LLC occasionally in the past, but has not done work for the company in about a year, documents state.

Officers reported the check appeared to have been altered to look as if it had been issued in 2017 or 2018, and Rinehart's address also appeared to have been changed, documents state.

Police charged Rinehart on Dec. 10 with theft, forgery, bad checks, access device fraud and receiving stolen property. A preliminary hearing has not yet been scheduled.