Scary story. A cascade of incompetence, beginning and ending with the bank and an idiot teller. Like most Freepers, had this horror happened to me, I would have been hopping mad but instead of ranting would have immediately went to a barracuda-type attorneys office and demanded they help me sue Chase. Sue the police department, maybe, but they thought they had sufficient reason to hold the man, although they didn’t try very hard to learn the facts. Anyway, Chase bank is the real culprit here. I suspect some racial profiling was involved. Plus, as a construction worker, if the victim was dressed in his work clothes he probably didn’t look prosperous enough to have an $8,000-something check. Not that it should have mattered. Of course, in this situation, most people would have asked to see the manager and not left the bank until it was cleared up and they had their money. Still, he was treated badly and illegally. Chase sucks. I hope this fellow sues and collects, big. He deserves it.
I think your scam detector is broken.