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Suspect in Chicago-Area Auto Dealer Scams Misses Court Appearance.

By Carolyn Starks, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 1--A judge issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for a 75-year-old Algonquin woman accused of writing bad checks for new cars across the Chicago area, and her lawyer dropped her as a client after saying he had become her latest victim.

Betty A. Gooch, who has been charged with five felonies in McHenry and Cook Counties for allegedly purchasing cars with bad checks, failed to show up Wednesday for a bond hearing in the McHenry County Courthouse in Woodstock.

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