METHUEN — Fake $100 bills turned up twice last month at Market Basket, 186 Haverhill St., and store loss prevention officers said they believe the same woman is responsible.
A store security camera captured the woman in the act on Aug. 26 and again on Aug. 30, store officers told police Officer Neil Quinlan.
They also were able to determine when the transaction took place because there was only one $100 bill in the register on each day. A review of the sales, they said, found only one instance in which the respective cashiers had entered $100 as the amount tendered by the customer. Each of the two days, the same woman was the customer where the counterfeit bills were passed, they told police.
The crimes were reported Tuesday at 9:59 a.m., and the case was forwarded to the detective division for investigation.
The following were taken from area police logs for Tuesday:
Methuen
Disturbance: 2 Barker St., kids being loud in the street, 1:35 a.m.
Disturbance: 5 May Court, kids being loud outside, 3:03 a.m.
Car crash: Lowell Street and Riverside Drive, no injuries, 9 a.m.
Theft: 242 Forest St., tools taken from truck, 11:07 a.m.
Disturbance: 21 Renfrew St., 2:57 p.m.
Loud music: 70 Union St., 7:13 p.m.
Vandalism: 10 Albermarle St., fence damaged, 7:19 p.m.
Fireworks complaint: 108 Hampstead St., 7:51 p.m.
Vandalism: 99 Jackson St., graffiti on door, 8:03 p.m.
North Andover
Loud music: 4205 Harvest Drive, 8:37 a.m.
Car crash: Massachusetts Avenue and Interstate 495, two cars, 12:32 p.m.
Arrest: Francis Misserville, 21, 35 Arlington St., Lawrence, driving an uninsured vehicle, 115 Main St., 3:28 p.m.
Car break: 198 Massachusetts Ave., purse taken, 4 p.m.
Andover
Car crash: Lowell Street, three cars, no injuries, 7:07 a.m.
Car crash: North Main Street, two cars, no injuries, 2:18 p.m.
Burglary: River Road, 8:27 p.m.
Lawrence
Car break: 809 Essex St., stereo and jewelry taken, 12:19 a.m.
Car theft: 317 Ames St., 3:37 a.m.
Disturbance: 29 Pearl St., 7:35 a.m.
Car theft: 18 Cypress St., 8:09 a.m.
Disturbance: 450 Essex St., 9:22 a.m.
Vandalism: 245 Prospect St., property damaged, 10:14 a.m.
Disturbance: 933 Essex St., 10:59 a.m.
Car theft: Essex and Franklin streets, 12:25 p.m.
Burglary: 47 Midland St., 12:28 p.m.
Arrest: Gaby Abdel-Nour, 45, 14 Hay St., assault and battery on a household member, 14 Hay St., 12:28 p.m.
Theft: 490 S. Union St., 2:35 p.m.
Disturbance: Appleton and Essex streets, 2:42 p.m.
Car crash: 499 Essex St., no injuries, 3:22 p.m.
Theft: 383 Haverhill St., property taken, 4:37 p.m.
Disturbance: 227 Walnut St., 5:31 p.m.
Burglary: Bellevue Street, 7:18 p.m.
Noise complaint: 71 Shawsheen Road, 8:03 p.m.
Noise complaint: 104 Chester St., 8:07 p.m.
Arrest: Wbeimer Banol, 37, 50 London St., trafficking cocaine over 100 grams, 141 Amesbury St., 8:56 p.m.
Arrest: Jose Ribiero, 39, Cambridge, trafficking cocaine over 100 grams, 141 Amesbury St., 8:56 p.m.
Disturbance: 20 Boehm St., 11:09 p.m.
Vandalism: Erving Avenue and Belmont Street, car window smashed, 11:15 p.m.
