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 ROANOKE RAPIDS POLICE PHOTOSBOGUS $200 BILL |
ROANOKE RAPIDS - Roanoke Rapids Police are investigating whether a man they arrested Tuesday night who tried to pass a bogus $200 bill at a Blue Flame store is the same person who passed a similar bill at the Roanoke Avenue Food Lion.
Detective Lt. Ron Baird said officers charged Michael Christopher Harris, 24, of Madison Street, with attempting to obtain property by false pretenses.
Baird said Harris was charged after someone recognized the bill from photographs in the Daily Herald Tuesday and from a Halifax County Crimestoppers tip.
The informants said they recalled someone attempting to pass the bill at a Blue Flame store.
The bill, which is not printed by the U.S. Treasury, but can be purchased from novelty stores, has a picture of President Bush on the front and a picture of the White House on the back with signs boasting "We like broccoli" and "USA deserves a tax cut."
Instead of the bill being a Federal Reserve Note, it is marked as a "Moral Reserve Note."
Baird said investigators are trying to determine if Harris is the customer who successfully passed the bill at the Food Lion on Roanoke Avenue.
The bill was used to buy $150 in groceries and the customer was given $50 in change Saturday.
Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Greg Lawson confirmed the bill was bogus and said counterfeiters and bad check passers often target stores with a high volume of customers in hopes of catching a harried cashier off guard.
Harris was placed in the Halifax County Jail on $2,500 bond.
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