{"id":803745,"date":"2026-10-15T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803745\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T20:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:34:14","slug":"taxi-driver-given-fake-cash-by-customer-drove-to-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803745\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi driver given fake cash by customer drove to police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man was arrested after a taxi driver who was given fake cash drove the suspect straight to a police station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottinghamshire Police said the driver picked up the suspect from Nottingham Road at 23:30 BST on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the customer continued to change his route, the taxi driver asked how he would be paying, which is when he was handed a counterfeit \u00a320 note, the force added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After questioning the customer and being given further fake notes, the driver took him straight to Radford Road police station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The force said officers also carried out a search of a man&#8217;s address, where they discovered a &#8220;Rambo knife&#8221; under his mattress. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added no further counterfeit cash was recovered, but a cannabis cultivation kit was seized from the address. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of using counterfeit currency and possessing an offensive weapon in a private place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested after a taxi driver who was given fake cash drove the suspect straight to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}