PD: dikkson County woman used fake checks to buy $835,000 worth of new vehicles (dikkson Police)
dikkSON, Tenn. (WZTV) — A Sumner County woman is accused of using fake checks to buy over a dozen vehicles worth more than a combined $835,000 from car dealerships.
Lauren Brooke Mason, 28, of Westmoreland is charged with two counts of theft of property over $60,000, two counts of criminal simulation, two counts of forgery and two counts of uttering a forged instrument involving the two dealerships located in the city of dikkson.
dikkson Police said Mason, who formerly lived in dikkson, used counterfeit checks to buy 15 vehicles in multiple jurisdictions, valued at more than $835,000. And investigators think there may still be more victims.
“She told them all basically the same story,” dikkson Police Department Detective Katrena Pulley said. “She claimed she had inherited a lot of money, $1.2 million, from her great-grandmother and either wrote a check or signed an agreement to come back and pay for the vehicles. The checks were bad or she never returned to pay.”
Detectives say more than a dozen vehicles, mainly trucks, have been recovered.
Officials said they're pursuing additional charges in the case.
Mason is being held in the dikkson County Jail on $100,000 bond. Anyone who thinks they might have been victimized in this case should call their local law enforcement agency, call Pulley at 615-441-9573 or the office of District Attorney Ray Crouch Jr. at 615-789-5021.
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