COAL RUN VILLAGE, Ky. — A Johnson County woman was arrested for writing thousands of dollars’ worth of bad checks to a Pike County business, but it took several tries for police to confirm her identity.

State troopers were called to Rural King in Coal Run Village, after staff reported that a woman who had passed three bad checks totaling nearly $2,700 was back in the store, trying to buy more items.

Officers arrived as the woman was in the checkout line and spoke to her about the checks. She first gave police a name and Social Security number, then said she was simply buying the items for a friend, who had given her the check filled out to the store. When police ran the name she gave them, it came back for a different person.

The woman at first continued to insist that was her name, but later changed her story and gave the officer a different name and number. That also turned out to be a different person, but the woman refused to give police any more information.

Finally, one of the officers was able to track down the woman’s Facebook page from the names of the other woman she gave, which allowed police to run her license and determine the woman was Jessica Spradlin, 38, of Paintsville. Police also learned she was wanted on eight active warrants, including six indictment warrants on charges including theft, identity theft and meth trafficking.

Spradlin was arrested on charges of possession of a forged instrument, identity theft, theft by deception and giving police false identifying information.

Once she arrived at jail, she told authorities they should call the coroner, because she had just eaten heroin. Spradlin was taken to the hospital and cleared, leading to additional charges of public intoxication and evidence tampering.