(ABC 6 News) – A Rochester man faces charges of theft of firearms and check fraud in Olmsted County Court.

Dantel Ruth Jr. faces the following charges dating back to June 2023: felon in possession of a firearm; crime of theft; and felony receiving stolen property.

Ruth Jr. also faces the following charges from August 2023: three counts of check forgery – offer/possession with intent to defraud.

According to court documents, in June 2023, the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office responded to a burglary in SW Rochester where four firearms were stolen during a house party.

According to court documents, a witness confirmed that Ruth Jr. stole four long guns and sent police a photo from his Facebook story that read, “2 rifles 1000 a piece, coming to get them.”

Police recovered the guns in September 2023, according to court documents.

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According to Ruth Jr.’s second set of charging documents, Rochester police went to a bank in NW Rochester on Aug. 3, 2023, because of a fraudulent check deposit.

An employee said a bank customer deposited two fake checks into her account, then made cash withdrawals for the entire amounts — more than $11,000 in total.

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The woman was taken into custody and allegedly described Dantel Ruth Jr. as running a check fraud organization in Rochester.

The woman said Ruth Jr. instructed her to open new bank accounts in Rochester, and when she did, Ruth Jr. took all her debit cards and login information, linked her CashApp account to the banks , then linked her accounts to it. CashApp.

After the woman cashed the fraudulent checks, court documents allege, Ruth Jr. used her information to transfer the money to his own account.

Court documents allege that the woman deposited another fraudulent check into her account and that other people testified that Ruth Jr. gave them fraudulent checks to deposit during the same time frame.

All the checks came from the same construction company, which said the routes and account numbers were correct — but the company didn’t reach those check numbers when the woman deposited the checks, so they were forged.

Ruth Jr. appeared in Olmsted County Court on all charges on November 6.

He is scheduled to appear for a settlement hearing on January 23, 2025, followed by a preliminary hearing scheduled for June 15, 2025.