The son of a former employee in the Union County supervisor’s office has been arrested for allegedly forging his mother’s signature and using a county credit card for his own benefit.

Brandon Taylor Blackburn, 24, 10 Landis Park Road, Spartanburg, was arrested Tuesday and charged with forgery and financial transaction card fraud. The warrant issued for Blackburn’s arrest on the charge of forgery states that between December 2009 and February 2010 he “did unlawfully and willfully forge the name of Vicky Nash, who was a Union County employee at the time, to a Union County government issued Wal-Mart credit card on three separate occassions.”

The warrant for Blackburn’s arrest for financial transaction card fraud states on those three occasions he took the credit card issued by the county to Nash “without the owner’s consent or knowledge” and used it “for his personal benefit.”

According to the warrants the amounts involved totaled less than $5,000.

Blackburn’s arrest is the result of an ongoing SLED investigation initiated in March at the request of Supervisor Tommy Sinclair after he learned of some questionable transactions involving some county credit cards.

Nash, who was employed as a bookkeepeer was suspended by Sinclair after $60,000 in undeposited checks and cash were found on or in her desk. She then tendered her notice of retirement a few days later.