FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Key West Police Chief Sean Brandenburg released a statement on Wednesday praising the cooperation of the Broward Sheriff’s Office in a case involving a 21-year-old suspect.

BSO deputies arrested Cortlin Baker on Tuesday, and he was at the Broward County Main Jail on Wednesday, in Fort Lauderdale, with a Monroe County hold, according to inmate records.

“It’s another fine example of the great partnerships between law enforcement agencies in South Florida,” Brandenburg said in the statement.

Key West detectives accused Baker, of Pompano Beach, of changing the value of a check from $15 to $5,000, and the name of the payee to his, according to the KWPD statement.

Baker is facing charges of grand theft and uttering a forged instrument.

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