{"id":378165,"date":"2026-10-20T19:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378165\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:04:14","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-man-accused-of-using-fake-100-bills-at-home-depot-faces-five-felony-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378165\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Man Accused Of Using Fake 100 Bills At Home Depot Faces Five Felony Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Bronx man is facing felony charges after police say he tried to use counterfeit $100 bills at a Home Depot in Westchester County.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say Justin Melendez allegedly attempted to pass the fake currency at the store.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Melendez is charged with five counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have not released additional details about the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man is facing felony charges after police say he tried to use counterfeit $100 bills at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-378165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378165","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=378165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}