1 Fake c-notes. Police were called to North Sable Boulevard and East Second Avenue on Sept. 12 because a man paid a $62 cab fare with a fake $100 bill. The cab driver drove the man around Denver before the man handed over the bill and left. A gas station attendant used a counterfeit detector marker to determine that the cash was worthless.
2 Missing tools. Police were called to the 3200 block of South Dahlia Street Sept. 10 after $1,400 worth of tools vanished from the victim’s garage. Police noticed that the garage windows had been pried open. There are no suspects.
3 Shot while sleeping. A man’s mother called police Sept. 9 after her son was shot with a pellet gun by a neighbor while he was sleeping. The man told police he had friends over the night before and fell asleep. He woke up when a guest shot him in the back. He did not want to press charges.
4 Music thief. After coming home to a broken lock and front door, a man reported a break-in at his residence Sept. 8, in the 17500 block of East Wesley Place. Inside, he was missing two computer monitors, a Fender Stratocaster guitar and a bass amp.
5 Stiffed the cabbie. A taxi cab driver called police Sept. 8 after a customer gave him a bad credit card. The driver took a female passenger to the 13700 block of East Quincy Avenue, where she gave him the card and then ran into a nearby apartment complex.
6 Desk robbery. An employee at the Medical Center of Aurora at 1501 S. Potomac St. called police Sept. 5 when she noticed someone had taken $300 cash from her purse that was in her unlocked desk drawer.
