It must be fraudulent

That's what Wichita's Emprise Bank must have said when Sattar Ali, an Iraqi-American citizen who moved to the United States in 1993, gave the bank a check for $151,000 from the sale of his family’s old house in Michigan. A few minutes after he first presented tellers with the check, he was in handcuffs. When the police took him to their car, he found his wife and daughter there and they were all taken to police headquarters.

Ali says, “No one told me why I was being arrested until we were being released. They didn’t read me rights or anything.” He also says, "And I told them I don't need it until I find a house. So keep the check with you, verify, take your time." "Simply we were just going there to deposit a check. We were not asking for money." large check came from someone with his name and not someone named “James or Robert.” Ali was puzzled with why the bank couldn't seem to verify the check but police did.

Ali, who along with his wife and children are American citizens, lived in Wichita from 1998 to 2008, and was returning to get his doctorate in engineering from Wichita State, where his eldest son is a freshman.