Pizza guy gets bogus $100 bill

Farmington Hills police were called to the Fairmont Park Apartments on Feb. 6 after a pizza deliveryman received a counterfeit $100 bill from a customer.

According to reports, the customer’s charge including tip came to about $40, which he paid with the bogus bill. The deliveryman then gave him approximately $60 change.

The deliveryman later noticed the bill was imprinted with “For motion picture use only,” and had a different feel than authentic currency.

Police went to the address where the pizza was delivered but learned that the man who lives there had just arrived home and hadn’t ordered from the pizzeria. The deliveryman confirmed the resident wasn’t the person who had passed the fake bill.

Similar counterfeit money showed up at Zap Zone in Farmington recently. The suspect in both cases is described as a shorter black man with short dark hair.

Fraud

A 77-year-old Farmington Hills woman was contacted by a collection agency Feb. 5 claiming she had an outstanding Comcast cable bill of $651. The woman then stopped by the Farmington Hills Police Department to report that she doesn’t have a Comcast account.

It was determined that someone used her social security number to establish the account, police said.

Larceny

A $2 item that had been delivered to a porch in Farmington Hills was reported stolen recently.

The item, a desk glider, is used to open desk drawers. The victim of the theft told police he found the FedEx package it came in opened and empty on his porch in the 34000 block of Bunker Hill. He couldn’t provide police names of possible suspects.