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CHARLOTTE, NC – North Myrtle Beach Police say a missing Gaston County woman did not drown. Investigators believe Amy Arrington faked her disappearance to avoid possible jail time.
Court records show a lengthy wrap sheet for Arrington. She has convictions dating back to 1992 for charges like credit card theft and identity fraud.
Arrest warrants from last year show Arrington is accused of forging checks and using another person’s bank account number. The warrants claim she would use the money to make payments to Capital One and Time Warner Cable and to buy items from Amazon.com.
Arrington was set to go on trial Monday. Her husband says she vanished over the weekend while the two were vacationing in North Myrtle Beach.
“To be sent on wild goose chase just so somebody can cover themselves, to avoid accountability, that’s not nice, and we really don’t appreciate it,” says North Myrtle Beach spokesperson Pat Dowling.
The couple no longer lives at the multiple addresses they gave police, or at a Mount Holly address listed on her warrants. We spoke with a woman who lives there now.
“The police came here to investigate, to see if we know anything about her. But she came way before us, like two tenants before us,” the woman says.
She doesn’t know Arrington, but her husband who works at a nearby Wells Fargo, recognized her immediately. “He remembers seeing her like a year ago. She was trying to pass some fraudulent checks,” she says.
She adds police questioned people living in her townhome community, looking for any clues that could lead them to her. “I don’t think it’s worth it,” she says. “You do something wrong, just be accountable, have your day in court and be done with it. It’s not worth it at all.”
Arrington has been charged under various aliases including Amy Robinson, Sutton, and Goeble.
