Two North Carolina residents are being accused of trying to purchase a $30,000 Utility Task Vehicle in Stafford County using fraudulent identification, authorities said.

According to Strafford Sheriff’s spokesperson M.C. Morris Moncure said that the pair was already under the radar for using fraudulent IDs to purchase an all-terrain vehicle and a UTV in Wilmington and High Point, N.C. UTVs are smaller, four-wheel off-road vehicles, also known as Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles.

Authorities were alerted, by the time the pair made it to Fredericksburg Motor Sports in Stafford on Thursday.

Detectives Ed McCullough and Robert Firkin were in the store posing as customers, Moncure said, when the suspect woman arrived at the store and started signing paperwork related to the UTV transaction.

After watching the suspect sign the paper, the detectives arrested her and detained the male suspect, who was waiting outside in a U-haul truck.

32-year-old Jessica, of Lumberton was charged with forging public records, identity fraud and two counts of obtaining goods by false pretenses.

70-year-old David Brown, of Fayetteville was charged with attempting to obtain goods by false pretenses and conspiracy. Both of them are being held in the Rappahannock Regional Jail.

The suspect woman filed an online application before coming to Fredericksburg Motor Sports. The finance company warned the business that the research had shown that the same identification had been used previously to purchase an ATV.

The business reported to the Sheriff’s Office on late Thursday night last week, and the detectives were waiting, when the woman suspect showed up at about 2:45 p.m. to complete the purchase.

Preliminary hearings for the suspects are scheduled for May 24 in Stafford General District Court.

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