LOUISVILLE-
Somebody handed a group of Girl Scouts a bogus $50 bill and left with three boxes of their famous cookies and $40.25 in change, police said Wednesday.
Volunteer Catherine Prior was helping her daughter and other Girl Scouts selling cookies last week outside a grocery store in Louisville, about 20 miles north of Denver, when a man bought one box each of Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Do-Si-Dos, paid with the $50 and left, according to a police report.
It wasn’t until she got suspicious and had a nearby bank take a look at the bill that Prior found out it was counterfeit.
By then, the man was long gone.
Prior didn’t immediately return a call Wednesday. Her husband, Chris Prior, told the Daily Camera newspaper in nearby Boulder that passing a counterfeit to Girl Scouts was “pretty low-level.”
“That person must not have much of a conscience. You’re stealing from little girls—holy smokes,” he said.
The police report didn’t say whether the man knowingly passed the fake bill. Louisville Police Cmdr. William Kingston said investigators had no information beyond what was in the report.
Kingston said police haven’t heard reports of any other fake $50 bills in the area. Investigators have notified the U.S Treasury and hope the grocery store can find video surveillance footage of the transaction.
