{Ashland, Kentucky}...U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins will conduct an arraignment hearing for 52 year old Harold James in federal court in Ashland on September 10th. James was serving 41 months in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States when he escaped from a drug treatment center on May 10th. U.S. Marshals caught him in Atlanta on August 13th. James admitted passing 108 phony checks to retailers and that he manufactured more than 500 of the checks. Eight other people were convicted in the scheme, which prosecutors say affected businesses in Boyd and Carter counties and in Lawrence County, Ohio, costing them roughly $65,000.
