{"id":377157,"date":"2026-10-19T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377157\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:40:08","slug":"bronx-man-charged-with-using-counterfeit-bills-at-home-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377157\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man charged with using counterfeit bills at Home Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Miranda Ferrante<\/p>\n<p>Editor<\/p>\n<p>A 29-year-old Bronx man was arrested Oct. 17 after allegedly attempting to make a purchase with counterfeit $100 bills at Home Depot in Cortlandt, New York State Police said.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Melendez was arrested at the store, located at 3051 East Main St., Mohegan Lake, after state police assigned to a retail theft detail were notified of a man suspected of using counterfeit currency, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Melendez was charged with five counts of first-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a Class C felony, and petit larceny, a Class A misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>He was arraigned in Cortlandt Town Court and remanded to the Westchester County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Miranda Ferrante Editor A 29-year-old Bronx man was arrested Oct. 17 after allegedly attempting to make a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,138724,9,24,747,63,129,131,130,138725],"class_list":["post-377157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mohegan-lake","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-town-of-cortlandt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}