A South Carolina woman faces nine counts of counterfeiting and forgery in a case involving the cashing of checks with the city of Roanoke Rapids account numbers on them.

The case goes back to January 5, 2012, when Roanoke Rapids police said the city’s finance director discovered several fraudulent checks with the city of Roanoke Rapids’ account number were cashed in South Carolina.

The checks were cashed in stores in Conway, Myrtle Beach and Camden and totaled approximately $3,232.

Detective Corey Dixon worked with Cayce, South Carolina, police detectives and through their investigation arrested Tonya Sampson, 39, of Irmo.

At the time of her arrest in South Carolina she allegedly climbed out of the back of a sport utility vehicle hatch to try to dispose of a package containing un-cashed fraudulent checks.

She has been in South Carolina since her arrest in June of last year and was brought back to Halifax County Monday to face the Roanoke Rapids charges. She was jailed on $50,000 bond and was scheduled for a first appearance in court today.

Neither ever having been an employee of the city of Roanoke Rapids or ever having lived in the city, it remains unclear how she obtained the city’s bank routing numbers to allegedly produce the checks.

Captain Andy Jackson said police are still investigating how she got access to the city’s banking account number.