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CHARLOTTE- Lynn Bryant is frustrated.

The father of her two children owes her almost $100,000 in child support. Bryant has tried to have Lewis McKinley Carpenter arrested several times since 2009 to no avail.

"The people who do good, try to work, try to make a living, their the ones who get screwed," she said.

But a few weeks ago, she got a break. She searched the North Carolina Courts web site daily because she's certain Carpenter would be arrested for another issue. "Low and behold last week, I found out he had been arrested," she said.

And that's when more work started for Bryant. She began the process of tracking down the "Order For Arrest" document that had been issued by a judge in 2009. She said the Clerk of Courts said, " 'We can't find anything.' I said I'm telling you there's an order for an arrest he owes me $93,000 in child support that he has not paid a dime on."

Sheriff Chipp Bailey agreed that was the case. Orders for Arrest are not logged into a computer, so the police in Salisbury would have had no way of knowing there were papers to serve. "The only thing that goes into the statewide NCIC database are felons and I think also 50-B orders," said Bailey.

Bryant wasn't giving up. She called more people, dug more and finally someone found the paper. "She pulled my file and there it was the order for arrest," said Bailey. "It wasn't online, it wasn't anywhere." Carpenter was served the papers when he appeared in court Monday.

"What she went through is extraordinary in some cases, but not atypical for somebody living in a different county and trying to locate them, it happens," said Bailey.

Now Bryant has to wait and see what the Mecklenburg County judge decides for Carpenter and the almost $100,000 he owes.