BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Telegraph Staff Writer
STARKE— Police arrested a 23-year-old Estelle Street resident after he paid for a pizza with a fake $100 bill.
Danwandre Zikell Green of Starke was arrested for passing a counterfeit bank note.
According to an arrest report, a delivery driver at Domino’s Pizza told officers that a man approached his car when he arrived at a residence to make a delivery.
“The suspect tossed a crumpled-up bill toward the car and onto the ground and then obtained the food from the delivery driver,” wrote reporting officer David Hall in the report. “After this, he walked back into the residence with the food.”
Hall added that the delivery driver then exited his vehicle to recover the cash and immediately recognized the paper as a counterfeit $100 bill.
“He then attempted to knock on the door of the residence to confront the suspect about paying with counterfeit money, but nobody answered the door,” Hall added. “He then left and called his manager prior to returning to the restaurant.”
Hall reported that he examined the bill and observed the term “PLAY MONEY” printed on both sides of the note.
“On the back, it also had what appeared to be printed Chinese lettering,” Hall wrote. “All of these obviously indicated it is not real legal U.S. currency.”
Hall wrote that he and a sergeant drove to the Estelle Street house to identify the suspect. Two people within the structure identified Green as the man who took delivery of the pizza, and the 23-year-old refused to answer any questions from the officers.
