Occurred Monday, April 02, 2012, 2:10pm 321 John Sartain St., Forgery of Financial Instrument 1204020076

A 26-year-old woman was arrested Monday for attempting to pay her court fine at the main Corpus Christi Police Station with counterfeit money.

Corpus Christi Municipal Court employees called a police officer after 26-year-old Tawanya Rabb (9/5/1985) presented several 20 dollar bills to pay for a fine. The court employees said the bills were obviously defective and Rabb passed the money in person at the first floor of the building. Police accepted the bills as evidence and then arrested Rabb for forgery of a financial instrument, a state jail felony punishable by up to 2 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine. Rabb was additionally arrested for an outstanding Municipal Court Warrant for her arrest.