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Man Charged With Using Fake Money To Buy Gaming System, Stealing Games From Walmart
November 27, 2017
A Cantonment man has been charged with passing fake “movie money” $100 bills to purchase a gaming system and stealing hundreds of dollars worth of video games from Walmart.
Cedric Levon White, Jr., 26, is facing multiple felony counts after the two unrelated incidents.
White allegedly responded to a Facebook Marketplace ad for a Wii U gaming system with four games for sale. When he met the woman selling the gaming system, he handed what she told deputies looked like two $100 bills folded up. After White waked off with the Wii, the woman reported that she unfolded the money to find that it was marked “For Motion Picture Use Only”.
A few days later, Walmart on Mobile Highway reported that a man later identified as White entered the store and selected two black backpacks valued at $15 each. He emptied the bags of all packing material. White then placed about 30 video games valued at $643 in shopping cart and then concealed them inside the two backpacks. He the used a fire exit to leave the store, Walmart reported.
White was charged with petit theft, felony passing a counterfeited bank note and felony grand theft. He was later released from the Escambia County Jail on a $2,000 bond.
Pictured below: An example of “for motion picture use only” money. NorthEscambia.com image, click to enlarge.
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4 Responses to “Man Charged With Using Fake Money To Buy Gaming System, Stealing Games From Walmart”
Most stores cc machines no longer require the clerk to swipe them but when they did and they asked for an id I thanked them. I am with sam also. Something else. If you are going to leave it in the car and not the trunk cover it with something-if they don’t see it they likely not going to break a window to find out there is or isn’t anything there to steal.
Hopefully he bonded out with “real” two 100 Dollar bills!
I guess I will be more patient with clerks who following store policy put a pen to currency to check it. I always thought it was a waste of time, but I guess stupid has no limits and play money can find someone stupid enough to use the same.
it’s that time of year again. lock your cars, watch your purses and wallets. be careful going to your cars in parking lots, the scum is watching you.