The owner of an animal rescue store on Roanoke Avenue has been charged in a fraudulent computer-buying scheme allegedly using bogus state purchase orders, the Roanoke Rapids Police Department reported this afternoon. Deputy Chief Adam Bondarek said in a news release that on Thursday search warrants were executed at 1330 Hamilton Street and the Second Chance Animal Rescue Store located in the 300 block of Roanoke Avenue, which is run by Rose Nicholson Cohen, 54. Police were investigating a fraud case that was forwarded by the State Capitol Police.  Bondarek, who declined to comment beyond the news release, said 16 stolen computers and other electronic devices had been sent to the residence with fraudulent purchase orders mimicking state purchase orders.  The fraudulent purchase orders were in the name of an employee at the state Office of Information and Technology Services and were sent to Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company. The items were being shipped to 1330 Hamilton Street in Roanoke Rapids. Bondarek said a search of the house led police to recover six stolen Dell laptops and five HP laptops valued at $16,169.  Further investigation led Detective Sergeant Jeff Baggett to discover Cohen already mailed five additional HP laptops to the African country of Ghana and that two IPAQ business messengers had been sold on eBay earlier. At the time the stolen laptops were recovered, some of those items were currently posted on eBay for sale. A total of $25,122 worth of computer equipment had been fraudulently obtained and sent to 1330 Hamilton Street since July, Bondarek said. Today Baggett arrested Cohen, charging her with three counts of felony obtaining property by false pretense, two counts of felony possession of stolen goods and two counts of felony conspiracy. Cohen was placed in the Halifax County Jail under a $25,000 secured bond.    The investigation continues between Roanoke Rapids and the State Capitol police.