Counterfeit bills tricked two different people last week in separate incidents that took place within a block of one another and only days apart.
In one incident Nov. 3, the 25-year-old victim found a buyer for her computer monitor on Craigslist. According to the police incident report, they arranged a meeting around 3 p.m. on North Lake Street near Langdon Street, where the man gave her five fake $20 bills.
The bills, which all had the same serial number, were masked by one legitimate $20 bill on top of the stack, said Madison Police Department spokesperson Joel DeSpain in the report.
Police report the suspect as being black, 20 years old and around 6 feet tall.
In a separate incident a block away, a man allegedly used seven fake $10 bills, all with the same serial number, to purchase a pipe and lighter at Sunshine Daydream on State Street Nov. 1.
A store employee did not discover the crime until reviewing receipts two days later, according to DeSpain.
Police report the suspect in the second incident as being white, 20 years old and around 5 feet 10 inches tall.
