WESTLAKE, Ohio –
Counterfeiting: Detroit Road
Officers responded at 9:45 p.m. Oct. 4 to the Sunoco gas station on Detroit Road after a clerk reported that a man passed fake currency to pay for a transaction.
The suspect rode off on a bicycle after being confronted by the clerk. Officers located the man riding with a headlamp near Detroit and Mendelssohn Drive. He said that he had just been paid with the bills by his “boss” for a painting job in the area, but he could not describe where this job had been nor who his boss was.
Officers found additional fake currency on the 49-year-old, who listed an Avon Lake residence. They arrested the suspect, and he was charged with counterfeiting.
Arrested on a warrant: Detroit Road
Officers stopped a vehicle at 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 in the 30000 b