When a Bloomfield man went to court yesterday, he was charged with counterfeiting. He was arrested last weekend after he tried to pass a counterfeit $100 bill at a Bloomfield convenience store.

Gabriel Dion Myers, 30, Bloomfield, was arrested by Deputy Marshal Brittany Ingram of the Bloomfield Police Department early last Saturday, November 7. Myers was booked in at 1:25 a.m. following an investigation that started when Officer Ingram was dispatched to Huck’s convenience store and gas station in Bloomfield shortly before midnight on Friday, November 6.

At Huck’s, an employee provided Officer Ingram with a $100 bill that had three brown marks on it where the bill had been tested with a counterfeit detection pen three times. The employee said Myers had been in the store earlier and after a different employee tested the bill and returned the bill to Myers, he left the store. Myers waited until the first employee left and a new one came on duty then tried to pass the bill again. She said she tested the bill, did not accept it as payment, and contacted law enforcement.

When Officer Ingram, assisted by GCSD Deputy Goad, went to talk to Myers, he admitted he had tried to pass the bill at a different gas station but was told it was fake. He said he then tried to pass it at Huck’s and was told it was fake so he waited for that employee to leave then tried to pass it to the current employee. He allegedly said he’d had the bill for years.

The bill was missing certain characteristics and had pink Chinese lettering on it. When asked about the pink Chinese lettering, Myers allegedly said he and a friend had used it to test out a printer. When asked about missing characteristics, he said they must have washed off.

Myers was taken into custody and transported to the Greene County Jail where his bond was set at $4,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed.

Myers appeared in Greene Superior Court yesterday afternoon, November 12, and was charged with counterfeiting, a Level 6 felony.