An Athens man who ran for mayor in 2018 was arrested last week on a charge that he wrote a bad check to a marketing firm that handled a segment of his mayoral campaign advertisements.

Richard “Richie” Marcus Knight Jr., 30, of Timothy Road, was arrested Aug. 11 on the felony bad check warrant and later released on a $2,950 surety bond.

The warrant alleges the check for $5,975 was written on April 18, 2018, to Better Letter Mailing Services Inc. of Stockbridge, Ga.

A warrant was obtained in November, but served last week. A comment from the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office regarding the delay was unavailable on Monday.

A spokesman for Better Letter Mailing Services said Monday that Knight contracted with the company to do a postcard mailing for his mayoral campaign. Knight came in third with only 8.9 percent of the vote in a race won by Kelly Girtz.

Knight, who grew up in Oxford, ran for mayor touting his entrepreneurship and leadership.He wrote on this website that he and a business partner in 2010 formed HW Creative Marketing in Athens “that has now assisted hundreds of clients across the nation in growing their businesses.”