Tuesday morning, former fugitive Jason Smith will finally come face-to-face with the Warren County legal system.

Before Smith's arraignment, he spoke exclusively with WBKO about the allegations he wrote bad checks... then skipped town.

The 25-year-old told WBKO while he may be guilty of writing bad checks but he's not guilty of trying to scam a town.

"No, that was never the case. If I had planned on coming down to Bowling Green and making a mockery of the city and running, I would have never had myself out there like I was," says Jason Smith.

Smith says he was living in Leitchfield with his fiancee and daughter when the opportunity to own an American Basketball Association franchise came along.

"The owner of the Los Angeles Beat, an ABA team, I know him, told me about the ABA and told Joe Newman about me and the NAFL football down in Memphis," explains Smith.

After talking to ABA owner Newman, Smith says he was given the "go-ahead" by First Tennessee Bank in Memphis, to create "S & N Incorporated" to run the newly-created "Kentucky Mavericks".

But shortly after Smith began writing checks amounting to more than $100,000 to vendors, he says his bank changed its tune.

"I think about halfway through this thing going down, there was a letter sent to my mom's house stating that it's not a good thing we cannot fund a company that's out-of-state," notes Smith.

If I had've known that if I wrote a $10,000 check that it would have bounced, then it would have never been written.

Smith says he was in contact with several of the vendors he failed to pay during that time.

However, with larger bills coming at him, such as the bill for the ABA leasing fee, he says it was harder to pay them all off at once.

He says over the last few months he has fixed things with Newman.

But Smith hasn't had a chance to talk to former "Mavericks" co-worker and current "Kentucky Bisons" owner Jay Sills.

"I would love to sit down and apologize to Jay. Let him know that I never meant to put him in the line of fire. Because when you look at the situation, there's no one to blame but me," admits Smith.

Smith says he's finally prepared to make amends.

"All I want to do is work with whatever we got to do here starting tomorrow in court and get this taken care of so I can get these people paid so I can go back to Leitchfield and live my life," Smith says.

Smith was arrested in Memphis and extradited back to Bowling Green last week.

But why didn't he turn himself in like he promised to months ago?

"When everything was finished and done I planned on turning myself in and actually I wanted to do it after Christmas. You can't hide from the being a fugitive from justice when you're all over the Internet," notes Smith.

Tuesday night at 10, WBKO will have much more from the one-on-one interview with Jason Smith on why he really went to Memphis and why he was involved in a multi-million dollar real estate deal in Tennessee.