Beaufort County Sheriff’s Investigators have charged 19 yr. old Tahjena Nasia-Elise Assing with 9 combined felony counts of Forgery of an Instrument, Uttering a Forged Instrument and Obtaining Property by False Pretense. The investigation began November 22nd, when a local store reported receiving 3 fraudulent payroll checks from Assing within a 5-day period.
Assing was arrested on November 30th when she returned to the same store and attempted to cash another fraudulent payroll check from a different company. During a search of her car Investigators located multiple ID cards and 35 fraudulent payroll checks from 5 different companies. Investigators believe Assing has been passing these checks in other jurisdictions throughout eastern North Carolina. The investigation is ongoing and Assing is facing multiple additional felony charges in Beaufort County. She was originally held on a $50,000.00 secured bond
Anyone with information about this case or any business that may have received one of these checks is asked to call the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division at 252-946-7111.
