On October 16, 2025, Detective Rademacher of the Rochester Police Department was assigned to follow up a theft case. Detective Rademacher spoke with the complainant (an adult male identified in the police reports and herein referred to as Victim) who reported that a check was stolen out of his mailbox on or around 08/28/2025. Victim [NAME REDACTED] is the administrator of his father’s estate and a check for his father’s account was stolen. Victim [NAME REDACTED] was for $488.99 and was to be mailed out to an excavating company.
Victim stated that the suspect used the routing number and account number from the check to make fake checks. Victim stated the suspect created a fake check and misspelled his dad’s name. Victim [NAME REDACTED] attempted to cash it at a credit union bank on 09/30/2025. The name on the check was Michael Hall, later identified as Michael Anthony Hall [DOB REDACTED]. The check number was 2019 and the amount was for $1400. Victim told the credit union bank the check was fraudulent. Victim stated the bank also flagged a credit card payment.
The suspect used the account information from the check to make a payment on a credit card. Victim [NAME REDACTED] was able to give him the name of the individual the credit card payment was for and the amount was for $292.86. Victim stated the last name of the person was Kolk, later identified as Theodore James Kolk [DOB REDACTED], a codefendant in this case. Victim sent Detective Rademacher a copy of $292.86 bank payment with a sticky note that has the name Theodore Kolk on it and two copies of the fraudulent check with the victim’s account written out to Michael Hall for $1,400. Detective Rademacher then contacted the victim’s bank and obtained a document with the $292.86 transaction to Kolk on 10/08/2025. Detective Rademacher obtained a search warrant and received documents from the bank.
The information from the bank indicated the account comes back to Kolk with his information and address. The application name on the account was Theodore Kolk. On 10/07/2025, $292.86 was received from the victim’s bank account and went to Kolk’s account with a return date of 10/17/2025. On 10/09/2025, $150 was received from the victim’s bank account and went to Kolk’s account with a return date of 10/10/2025. The total amount for the transactions was $442.86. Detective Rademacher spoke with Hall.
Hall stated he was approached about cashing the checks. He thinks the person’s name was “TK” or that was his nickname. Hall stated “TK” offered to help him if he could help him with getting some money out of his accounts. Hall stated TK asked him if he could help him deposit some checks for him because his phone was not working. Hall stated “TK” asked him to cash the checks into his account then Cash App him a portion of the money. Hall stated TK told him he could keep 50 percent of the money from the checks and to cash app the other 50 percent of the money.
