February 20, 2011 Counterfeit money at Target store leads to arrest www.privateofficer.com
Clarkstown NY Feb 20 2011 A 20-year-old Bronx woman is accused of using a bogus $100 bill to buy merchandise at Palisades Center mall in West Nyack, according to Clarkstown police.
Police said Sarah Larocca was arrested after security officers at the Target department store discovered the counterfeit bill at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and contacted police. Clarkstown police alerted town officers with a description of the woman and a short time later she was found in a car that was stopped on Palisades Center Drive.
During their investigation, police said they discovered Larocca had other counterfeit bills and a forged driver’s license. Lorocca was taken to police headquarters in New City, where she was arraigned in Town Court and ordered held in the Rockland County Correctional Center in New City pending a Town Court hearing.
She is charged with five counts of first-degree possession of a forged instrument for the counterfeit money, petty larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and second-degree possession of a forged instrument for the forged license.
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