{"id":380550,"date":"2026-10-23T06:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380550\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T06:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:45:18","slug":"news-12-bronx-bronx-man-accused-of-using-fake-100-bills-at-westchester-home-depot-faces-five-felony-charges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380550\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Bronx Man Accused Of Using Fake 100 Bills At Westchester 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":380551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-380550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380550","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=380550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}