DICKSON, Tenn. — A Tennessee woman is accused of using fake checks to buy 15 vehicles worth a total of $835,000 from car dealerships, authorities said.
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, WZTV reported.
Officials with the Dickson Police Department said Mason, who used to live in Dickson, used counterfeit checks to buy 15 vehicles in multiple jurisdictions, the television station reported.
“She told them all basically the same story,” Dickson Police Department Detective Katrena Pulley told WZTV. “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 said the vehicles. mostly trucks, have been recovered.
Mason is being held in the Dickson County Jail, with bail set at $100,000, WZTV reported.
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