Darien Police Department

Store Reports Possible Attempt to Pass a Counterfeit $100 Bill

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When two women visited Chocolate Works at Goodwives Shopping Center late Friday afternoon, Sept. 9, one of them handed a store clerk a $100 bill to pay for something. The clerk became suspicious because of the way the bill felt, and she thought it might be counterfeit. She handed it back to the potential customer. The two women then left the store, and the clerk reported the incident to police at 6:10 p.m. Police are looking into the matter, including a review of the store’s video surveillance recordings.

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Counterfeit $100 Bills Presented at Three Stores on Tokeneke Road

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A woman went from store to store on Tokeneke Road last Friday, handing clerks phony $100 bills she tried to use to pay for items, police said. She was successful at one store. The woman — described as a Hispanic female with large black hair and wearing a red top and black pants — left the stores and got into a gold-colored Honda Civic with Connecticut license plates, Darien police were told. Police gave this account of the incidents:

At about 4:30 p.m., the woman went into the Johnny’s Records store at 45 Tokeneke Road and bought two bottles of Grateful Dead brand non-alcoholic wine. She gave the clerk the $100 phony bill and got back $70 in change.