Police: Surf City woman used fake bills for Scout cookies

SURF CITY, NC (AP) — A North Carolina woman has been charged with trying to use counterfeit $20 bills to buy Girl Scout cookies.

The Daily News of Jacksonville reports that 35-year-old Wendy Wilson of Surf City was charged by Surf City Police on Monday with passing three fake $20 bills to buy the cookies.

Warrants also charge her with two drug possession counts, one count of trying to obtain property by false pretenses and a count of possession of a firearm by a felon.

It was not immediately clear if Wilson had an attorney.

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