Valley Sream NY Dec. 15, 2007 An attempt to spend fake gift checks brought an early end to the Christmas shopping season for a Queens woman who tried to pass the bogus documents to several cashiers Wednesday morning at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, Nassau police said.Kifana J. Longdon-Lawrence, 24, of 158-08 137th Ave., Jamaica, first tried to pass a fraudulent American Express gift check at Macy's, but the store security manager called American Express to validate the gift checks because of a cashier's suspicions, police said.As the manager called American Express, Longdon-Lawrence left the store and went to an Old Navy where she succeeded in using one of the fake checks to buy merchandise, police said. She then went back to the same Macy's store -- but a different department -- to try to pass another check, police said.
There, she was arrested and charged with three counts of possession of a forged instrument.Longdon-Lawrence was scheduled for arraignment on Thursday in First District Court, Hempstead.
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