Clark County traffic stop lands relatives in jail

A traffic stop Friday on Lake Road had led to the arrests of two male relatives on a stolen vehicle charge and the admission from one that he swiped some personal checks from another relative a few weeks ago.

Dean and Kyle Valencia are now in the Clark County Jail on felony charges of receiving stolen property and and forgery, sheriff’s Maj. Russell Garman said in a prepared statement released Friday evening.

Both men were in a white Chevy pickup a deputy stopped on Lake Road just before 3 p.m. That deputy checked with dispatch and discovered the vehicle had been reported as stolen out of Huber Heights on March 28.

While being questioned at the sheriff’s office, Kyle Valencia admitted to a theft of at least five personal checks from Dean Valencia’s residence in Medway on April 8, then later forging those checks, one of which was written for $300, at a Wright Patterson Credit Union.

An employee at the credit union alerted the owner of the checks — Kyle Valencia’s grandmother — because that $300 check caused the grandmother’s account to be overdrawn, according to the sheriff’s incident report.

The Valencias are to be arraigned Monday in county Municipal Court, according to the sheriff’s office, and the case is to be presented to a county grand jury that could decide to return a true bill adding charges.

Kyle Valencia, 24, of New Carlisle, is charged with three counts of receiving stolen property and two counts of forgery.

Dean Valencia, 48, of Medway, is charged with one count of receiving stolen property.

The sheriff’s office has not made clear how the men are related.