Police say it happens more often this time of year than any other: People using fake money to buy merchandise.
But in Vineland, N.J., it isn’t Christmas gifts or clothing or jewelry being bought with bogus bills. It’s pizza.
Vineland Police are searching for several suspects who have paid pizza deliverymen with counterfeit $100 bills, reports the Daily Journal.
Two of the fake-dough-for-pizza exchanges happened Dec. 5. The third incident happened Sunday, police say. Carlo’s Pizza, a Vineland Domino’s and a Papa John’s were all ripped off by the fake $100 bills.
Some of the bills were smudged. In one case, ink on one of the bills ran after getting wet. The paper appeared different from the type on which real currency is printed.
Though Sunday’s fake $100 bill had a different serial number than the first two incident, police think that all three ragu-flavored rip-offs are related.
Police went to all three houses where the pizzas were delivered but did not find the suspects.
