25-YEAR-OLD Rakeim Williams allegedly tried to defraud the Paxton post office by using a fraudulent check to buy $735 worth of stamps has been charged in Ford County Circuit Court with one count of burglary.

Williams also was charged with one count of resisting a peace office. He allegedly fled from Paxton police when they approached him outside the post office after the alleged fraud was reported by postal office staff.

Williams is jailed in Paxton on a $50,000 bond.

The arrest of Williams was made March 28. Paxton post office officials alerted local police to his presence there. Postal officials in Paxton had been notified earlier that day that Williams was a suspect in an identical scam at a post office in Champaign — and that he may be coming to the Paxton area.

Williams allegedly was targeting post offices in cities located along interstates, including Interstate 57 and Interstate 55.

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