A Silver Creek man is in the Chautauqua County Jail on $15,000 cash bail for allegedly stealing checks and forging the check owner's name to them on five separate occasions. Chautauqua County Sheriff's deputies arrested 21-year-old Evan Ward Friday evening on a warrant for five counts each of 2nd-degree forgery, 2nd-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, and petit larceny. Ward has been remanded to the county jail and will appear in Silver Creek Village Court to answer the charges.