{"id":56574,"date":"2025-11-17T07:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/56574\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T07:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:39:21","slug":"inkster-man-charged-with-using-fake-money-to-order-pizzas-in-oakland-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/56574\/","title":{"rendered":"Inkster man charged with using fake money to order pizzas in Oakland County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/javon-smith-booking-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">FOX 2 &#8211; An Inkster man has been charged for using counterfeit $100 bills to pay unsuspecting restaurants in Milford and Highland Township.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WJBK\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Javon Lavell Smith was arrested at his home in Inkster earlier this week by members of the<br \/>Oakland County Sheriff\u2019s Office Fugitive Apprehension Team.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Smith, 21, has been charged with uttering and publishing counterfeit bills or notes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He was arraigned on Tuesday in Novi District Court and released from custody on a personal bond.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Smith is accused of ordering pizzas from restaurants in Milford and Highland Township on Oct.<br \/>7, paying for them with phony $100 bills and then receiving his change.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators say he never returned to pick up either order.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The case was investigated by detectives from the Sheriff\u2019s Office Highland Township substation<br \/>and the Milford Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this report is from the Oakland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/wayne-county\/inkster\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inkster<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/tag\/us\/mi\/oakland-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FOX 2 &#8211; An Inkster man has been charged for using counterfeit $100 bills to pay unsuspecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2042,34929,249,100,143,904,145,144,1181,796],"class_list":{"0":"post-56574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-inkster","10":"tag-mi","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-oakland","13":"tag-oakland-county","14":"tag-oakland-headlines","15":"tag-oakland-news","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-wayne-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}