Police: Woman pretended to be deputy to cash checks

NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. — Investigators say a woman is claiming to be a police officer so she can cash bad checks.

Police told Channel 2’s Carl Willis that the woman tried to cash a bad check at a convenience store in Newton County.

“She keeps coming up with different names altogether and she is supposedly a lieutenant or a sergeant, so I don't know where her checks are coming from,” store clerk Robin Simmons told Willis.

Simmons is one of the employees at the Chevron on Turner Lake Road who have been told to watch out for a woman trying to pass herself off as a Newton County deputy.

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Investigators said she's impersonating an officer in an attempt to gain trust that will enable her to cash checks without an ID.

"It's wrong and she knows, No. 1, that she's impersonating law enforcement, and then not only that, she's trying to get money that is not even hers," Simmons said.

Covington police were called to the store on Sept. 28 when the woman walked in to try to fool employees in person.

"She actually came to the store. She did. And every time she has called or come, she has come with a different name and a different story each time," Simmons told Willis.

But by the time an officer arrived, the woman and her black Honda Accord were gone.

The store manager said they were able to capture the woman on video. They just have to pull it and get it to detectives.

"Hopefully, somebody will know who she is and will be able to turn it in and she'll be caught,” Simmons said. “Maybe now that this is going, she won't be back."

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