An Ozark County man with a long history of writing bad checks has been arrested for writing more hot checks and stealing a U-Haul truck and living in it. Being held in the Boone County Detention Center on multiple charges is 78-year-old Robert Frank Jarvis of Theodosia. He has a hold placed on him for a warrant out of Baxter County for another hot check charge.
According to probable cause affidavits from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, Jarvis in September had rented the truck from a business in Omaha for 12 hours but did not return it.
Investigators learned Jarvis, who was being investigated for writing hot checks for large ticket items and then selling the items to pawn shops, was using the truck to move the property he purchased with the bad checks.
Jarvis was located later that day in Branson driving the truck and was arrested. He was held in the Taney County Jail until being extradited to Boone County this week.
During the investigation, it was determined Jarvis presented 15 checks totaling $12,696 and the total amount of theft was $13,790. That amount is figured from the total of the merchandise from the bad checks and the items purchased utilizing the gift cards bought with the bad checks.
His charges in Boone County include theft of leased or rented property, theft of property and violation of the Arkansas hot check law, all felonies, along with four misdemeanor charges of unlawful transfer of stolen property to a pawn shop. He is being held in the Boone County Detention Center on bonds totaling $15,000 but has the hold for Baxter County.
The Baxter County warrant is for a felony count of violation of the Arkansas hot check law.
According to the probable cause affidavit in that case, Jarvis passed six hot checks in Baxter County last year. The largest was for $1,350.
Jarvis has been arrested in Ozark, Douglas, Howell, Stone, Christian and Webster counties in Missouri on hot check charges.
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