[News] Police hunt Greeneville Woman Buying Puppies with Fake Checks
 

GREENEVILLE (WATE) -- Police are looking for a Greeneville woman who's bought at least half a dozen registered puppies over the last month with bogus checks.

There are at least three victims in this scam.

Yorkshire terriers and tea cup poodles are little dogs, but if registered with the AKC, they carry big price tags. Two hobby breeders sold puppies recently, only to discover the woman who bought them had a different motive in mind than helping her sick daughter.

Gayla Jackson is relieved to have her tea cup poodle puppies back. At her kennel outside Sparta, Tennessee, she's a hobby breeder.

Gayla considers her poodles like family and she's particular. Her registered tea cups are sold only to families.

But Gayla sadly admits, a customer snookered her on March 23. "She was too cool, too calculated, knew how to work the deals."

Larry Wood is also a hobby breeder. He and his wife, Liz, are missing a Yorkshire terrier puppy sold on March 23. The puppy was bought by the same woman who purchased several other dogs, all on March 23.

"Liz, do you recognize this face?" 6 On Your Side asks, showing her a mug shot. "Yes, she's the one who came and got the puppies." "Who is this?" 6 On Your Side asks. "Mrs. Baker," Liz says.

Gayla Jackson knows the mug shot, too. "That's Patricia Ann Baker but she goes by Ann Baker. She also has a driver's license that says Martha Baker."

Gayla says she sold Baker the poodles after listening to a sad story. "She had a daughter who had leukemia, was dying, and they were in hopes they could get it into remission. She had a believable story. Her husband was a lawyer and he was always out of town."

The Woods heard a similar story. "Well, she called and said would I take a check and meet her somewhere because her daughter had leukemia," Liz says.

The check the Woods received from Baker shows the name of her ex-husband and Fulton Credit Union, which has been closed for several years. The check is no good. The couple also discovered Ann Baker does not have a daughter suffering from cancer.

"I think it's sad. She made me feel sorry for her daughter," Liz says.

"She gave you some money?" 6 On Your Side asks Gayla Jackson. "Yes, paper money that wasn't any good," she says. "These two checks, one for $800, the other for $650." Both checks bounced.

Last week, Gayla got her puppies back with the help of Ann Baker's family, just days after Baker was seen with them at a flea market in Sevierville. "She takes them to the flea market to sell them and pretend they are hers."

Gayla has filed theft charges in White County against Baker. The Woods have also filed charges against Baker. "I have a warrant out for this woman's arrest. This is stolen property," Larry Wood says. "I want my dog back."

Knoxville police and White County deputies say they're looking for Ann Baker to serve warrants on her. But so far, investigators they haven't been able to find her.

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They need to beat her down, I Hope she doesn't have a daughter....can you imagine how that child would feel about her mom lying on her like that.

Fake sextuplets and now stolen puppies for a fake luekemia vicitim. Got to keep on them toes!

Omg!!
 

This is so weird .. check this out! -- My friend breeds Yorkies and I called her and told her about this article, and she says that this same woman has stolen one of HER puppies! Indirectly .. well here's what happened - She sold a boy puppy out of her dog Sophia, and the girl and her family named it Tramp. The little girl was walking around at the Sevierville flea market (which is HUGE) and this older man in his 50's and older woman in her 40's walked up and asked if they could pet her dog. The little girl said okay - they asked her where her parents were and she turned to look the other way to see, and she turned back around to tell them "I don't know" and they were both gone with her little puppy.
They filed a police report and she picked that same mug shot out of a book of possibilities. Good thing he was microchipped .. they have concrete proof if they ever find that puppy.

My breeder knew this story was going on way before this article was ever written because the first time it happened, that breeder was very consider and called every puppy ad in the newspapaer to warn these people. Then those people told their breeder friends and so it spread very quickly.

But you'd think that if she goes to flea market often to sell these stolen puppies that someone would know exactly who she is and turn her in, because obviously she does lots of business.