PLATTSBURGH — State police arrested 24-year-old Timothy W. Besaw of Saranac Lake Thursday for an alleged forgery, just after he was released from prison.

The forgery originally was reported to police on April 12, 2016, by a 23-year-old Plattsburgh woman who reported that Besaw attempted to cash one of her checks, which was forged and written out to himself for $400.

Besaw was incarcerated as a result of a felony driving-while-intoxicated conviction. A warrant was lodged at the Marcy Correctional Facility between Utica and Rome, where Besaw was being held. Upon his release from prison, he was arrested and charged with second-degree possession of a forged instrument, a Class D felony. He was arraigned in the Peru town court, where he was released on his own recognizance and ordered to appear in Plattsburgh town court at 4 p.m. Thursday.