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Post Rd Diner Management Thinks Customer Didn’t Know $20 Is Counterfeit

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A regular customer at Post Road Diner left a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for his meal, but the restaurant’s management thinks the man didn’t actually know the bill was fake. A manager at the diner, located at 171 Post Rd., reported the matter to police on Wednesday, Nov. 18, the day the customer — described as a heavyset white man with black hair and about 6 feet in height — ate and left the diner at about 11:55 a.m., leaving the twenty on the table. A few hours later, an employee brought the bill to the manager’s attention. To be certain it was fake, a special marker for counterfeit testing was used, and the color did show the bill was phony.

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Phony $100 Bill Passed at Trader Joe’s in Darien

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A counterfeit $100 bill was found Thursday, Oct. 22 among the cash receipts at the Trader Joe’s store, police said. At some point that day, the bill was given to an unknown cashier. The store has a policy that cashiers don’t test questionable bills but call over a manager to do it, but the cashier didn’t notice that the bill was fake. The manager, counting money after the store was closed, noticed that the paper wasn’t quite right and used a special pen to determine the bill was fake.

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27 Phony $20 Bills Passed at Darien Supermarket

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Two men who police think are part of a counterfeiting ring in the New York metropolitan area passed a total of 27 phony $20 bills (amounting to $540) at Stop & Shop in the Goodwives Shopping Center. The incident happened on Tuesday, July 21, but wasn’t noticed until later, when store security personnel were notified by a bank that the counterfeit bills were in the store’s money deposit. Police were informed on July 24. Security staff reviewed video surveillance records for July 21 at the store at 25 Old King’s Hwy. N. They saw two males enter the store, the first one at about 1:21 p.m., and saw each buy various small items along with $200 and $300 prepaid Mastercard gift cards.