A federal grand jury is indicting seven men from North Carolina for what prosecutors say was a scheme to get local homeless people to cash stolen checks.
Police say they took the checks from mailboxes at businesses, and hit banks and grocery stores in the Fox Cities and Green Bay area from June to October.
Prosecutors say they were using the scheme to try to get more than $120,000. They say the seven men recruited the homeless people at a number of different places.
The men are all facing five counts of fraud and two counts of extreme identity theft.
