Bounced check from 1991

Could you tell me where your friend got this notice from? Sounds kinda strange. In order for this bounced check to go through the judicial system the merchant would need to bring it to a magistrate/judge. Why in the good lords name would they wait 16 years? Was he/she writing checks on a closed account or a account that didn't belong to them? Sounds fishy.

Jcemt
16 years for 6.72. It sounds very fishy!!!!

Who sent him the notice? An official government agency? Or some private entity?

I smell a rat in this.

In some jurisdictions, the charge of theft by deception (aka bounced check) can have a statute of limitations up to 20 years.

Purely bouncing a check is considered theft by deception because you're supposed to have reasonable knowledge, demonstrate and guarantee that the funds are in the account.

The charge may have stuck around and they may have just managed to locate him as well.

Hockeyman, I see what you are saying. I would still be curious as to why it took sixteen years to find him, given that he seems to have been military at the time. Military personnel are generally pretty easy to track down.

But my question to the original poster is, whom sent the communication?

Yes there are statutes of limitations for criminal acts, except for murder. Most would have run after 16 years. Sounds like a deceiving debt buyer to me.