The wig-wearing woman who tried to cash stolen checks at banks up and down the Jersey Shore was arrested Thursday afternoon with the help of alert employees at a bank in Asbury Park, police said.

Workers at the PNC Bank on Sunset Avenue called police when they saw a woman who resembled the one wanted for bank fraud trying to make a withdrawal at the drive-in window with fake identification and stolen debit cards, police said.

The woman sped off in a silver Nissan sedan when police arrived and managed to elude a responding officer who tried to pursue her, according to authorities.

Minutes later at 4:22 p.m, police received another call -- this one about a woman trespassing in a parking lot on the 600 block of Heck Street. Before officers arrived, a witness saw a woman removing a license plate from a car and then running away.

The car matched the one seen at the bank and police sent multiple units before finding Brooke B. Slade, 43, of Arizona on the 500 block of Asbury Avenue.

Slade was charged with eluding, receiving stolen property, possession of a controlled dangerous substance, trespassing and multiple motor vehicle violations.

Those violations include reckless driving, driving without a license and fictitious plates.

Slade is also suspected of committing bank fraud in Wall and Toms River.

On Thursday, Toms River police said they were looking for a woman who tried to cash checks at Ocean First Banks in Hammonton, Little Egg Harbor and the Mays Landing section of Hamilton as as well as two Manasquan Bank branches in Howell.

Earlier in January, a woman smashed windows and stole purses from cars at Riverwood Park in Toms River.

Wall police also said that a woman burglarized vehicles in multiple fitness center parking lots.

A woman wearing a wig is suspected of being part of a criminal ring that breaks into cars to steal purses containing checks and credit cards, according to Toms River police. () She was arrested Thursday in Asbury Park.

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