NORFOLK
Police have recovered more than 2,000 government checks totaling $103,000 and arrested three men after a hotel mix-up led to what police on Wednesday called a quickly formed conspiracy and theft.
Police said a contractor with the U.S. Department of Transportation checked into the Doubletree Hotel Norfolk Airport at 880 N. Military Hwy. on Monday and went out. Meanwhile, the hotel mistakenly checked a second guest into the same room.
Acquaintances of the second guest went through the contractor's luggage, police said, and found and took a laptop and the checks. The checks, in various amounts, were to be distributed as incentives to ride public transportation as part of a federal program, said Master Police Officer Chris Amos, Norfolk police spokesman.
"As described to me, they were very, very cashable," Amos said.
Detectives and a Department of Transportation special agent located the second guest Tuesday and arrested the suspects Tuesday and Wednesday in Norfolk and Portsmouth, recovering all of the missing property, police said.
Charged with grand larceny and conspiracy were Vincent Land, 26, of the 1900 block of Charleston Ave. in Portsmouth; Marquise Vinson, 24, of the 800 block of Pine Crescent in Portsmouth; and Jacques Cowell, 18, of the 400 block of Harbor North Drive in Chesapeake.
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