Police say a Lakeland woman already facing charges of possessing and using counterfeit bills was arrested after she showed up at the Winter Haven police station to pick up her impounded vehicle with fake money on her person.



Jennifer Estes Hutton, 42, was first arrested on March 8 after allegedly trying to pass a false $20 bill at a Dairy Queen restaurant.

After the alleged Dairy Queen incident, Hutton was located inside her car a couple of miles away. Officers pulled her over and arrested her on driver's license and tag violation charges. When they searched her belongings, they found $600 in counterfeit $20 bills, police said.

On March 22, after being released from jail, Hutton arrived at the Winter Haven police station to retrieve her vehicle. Police said officers were aware she was wanted on a Polk County warrant for passing counterfeit bills in the unincorporated areas of Polk County.

As officers arrested her on the warrant, she tried to hide a purse with $360 worth of fake $5 and $20 dollar bills, police said.



Hutton, who was arrested the first time under the name Jennifer Hutto, was booked into the Polk County Jail on charges of possession of counterfeit notes, passing counterfeit bank notes, smuggling contraband and bringing counterfeit bills in to a government agency.