House arrest for man who forged cheque

By News Staff

Posted May 19, 2012 06:50:06 AM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

A Nova Scotia man who used a forged cheque to pay for car repairs has been placed on house arrest for six months.

Fifty-one-year-old John Mark Tillmann was sentenced this week in Dartmouth provincial court on charges of fraud under 5-thousand dollars and forgery.

The court was told that Tillmann defrauded MacKay’s CarStar in Upper Sackville last November.

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