{"id":247858,"date":"2026-07-20T18:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:27:17","slug":"fake-100-bills-used-in-erie-walmart-laptop-purchase-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247858\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake $100 Bills Used in Erie Walmart Laptop Purchase | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Untitled design - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police in Erie are investigating a retail theft involving counterfeit currency at the Walmart in Summit Township. According to police, the incident occurred around 4:01 p.m. on July 1 at the store located at 1825 Downs Drive.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Untitled design - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Investigators say an unidentified Black male with an athletic build purchased a laptop using eight counterfeit $100 bills. The suspect was described as wearing a white baseball cap, white T-shirt, black shorts, and black shoes. Police say he entered the store with another unidentified Black male and left the parking lot in an unknown white vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Untitled design - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact PSP-Erie at 814-898-1641 and request to speak with Trooper J. McConnell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police in Erie are investigating a retail theft involving counterfeit currency at the Walmart in Summit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[105909,31725,136,138,137,16400,1224,13995,782,23258],"class_list":["post-247858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-100-bills","tag-counterfeit-currency","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-laptop","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-retail-theft","tag-summit-township","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}