I read those three words standing at a counter in a strip unit in Peoria on the sixteenth of September 2024 with a nail salon drill going through the wall and I had to put both hands flat on the laminate.

Because I had spent three days building a case about a forged signature, and I had been looking at the wrong thing.

The forgery is a crime.

It is a class four felony in this state and it carried the sentence in the end and I will get to it.

But a forged signature on a power of attorney is not what stopped the sale.

Bennie Arceneaux did not look at that signature and compare it to the driver’s licence.