CANTON -- A Canton man charged in May with stealing checks from his mother and trying to forge and cash them on more than one occasion is now facing additional charges that he possessed stolen credit cards and other items from a purse taken from Massena on May 22.

Originally, St. Lawrence County Sheriff's deputies arrested Tyler D. Wood, 24, of 13 Pine St., on May 20 and charged him then with felony burglary.

He was arraigned and released, and, deputies say, he allegedly returned to his mother's Hannawa Falls residence, stole checks, forged them, and tried to cash them at branches of SeaComm Federal Credit Union and North Country Savings Bank in Massena, Canton and Potsdam.

On May 25, Wood was charged with first-degree felony burglary and misdemeanor petit larceny in the town of Pierrepont; first-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a felony, fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, a misdemeanor, in the village of Potsdam; and felony possession of a forged instrument in the village of Canton.

Deputies said today that further investigation revealed that Wood allegedly was also in possession of stolen credit cards, debit cards and social security benefit cards belonging to an unidentified woman whose purse was stolen in the village of Massena on May 22.

Today, Wood was charged with counts of felony possession of stolen property and a felony count of scheming to defraud for passing several bad checks to local businesses.

He was arraigned on the current charges in Canton Village Court and will reappear in court at a later date.

He was remanded back to St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility, where, on May 25, he was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail or $30,000 bond.