Hudson Woman Arrested for Passing Fake Money

Police have arrested a Hudson woman for in town at the end of February.

Brenda Summers, 51, of 38 Library St., Apt. 2, Hudson, was charged with five counts of forgery and one count of attempted forgery and held on $50,000 cash or surety bail for allegedly using the fake currency at five local stores and attempting to use the money at a sixth.

say a store clerk at the Gulf gas station on Continental Boulevard recognized the bill as being fake and refused to take it. Reports later came in from McDonald's, Wendy's, Walgreens, Galaxy Gas and Dunkin' Donuts that they had counterfeit currency in their possession.

Police say the calls started coming in on Feb. 26 and the investigation was opened Feb. 27. The investigation involved reviewing surveillance footage obtained during the investigation and comparing notes with police departments in other local jursdictions where the fake money was also passed, police say.

Summers was arraigned on the charges in the Ninth Circuit District
Court in Merrimack earlier today and held on bail pending a probable cause hearing scheduled for April 6.

According to an article in the Nashua Telegraph on March 13, Summers was arrested in Hudson on March 7 for a single count of forgery for passing fake $20 bills there. She held on $2,000 cash bail and arraigned by video in Nashua's district court on March 8.