The FBI numbers have been launched Monday with anticipation since March smashed earlier data with three.7 million checks carried out. Whereas the numbers leveled off a bit to about 2.9 million checks for final month, one week — April 13-19 — is now among the many high 10 highest weeks for the reason that system was tracked in November 1998. That week in April alone, the FBI carried out 766,739 checks.