Camden man accused of using fake money to post bail in Burlington County

JIM WALSH

Courier-Post Staff

July 15, 2010

"You can't teach stupid," Cinnaminson Police Det. Sgt. William Covert said of White, whose bail payment five days earlier had been inflated by a paperwork error. "He walks in the door looking for his money and we lock him up." 

White, who allegedly used five phony $20 bills to help pay $400 in bail on July 7, had two bogus $20 bills in his possession when he came to the station on Monday, Covert said. 

The two bills shared a serial number and matched at least one of the $20s used to make bail, he said. 

White's problems in Cinnaminson began with his July 7 arrest on multiple counts of shoplifting. White, accused of taking items from a Burlington Coat Factory and a Shop-Rite supermarket on Route 130, "actually had almost $900 in his pocket," Covert said. 

White received a summons for the shoplifting charges, but he had to pay $400 bail for two outstanding warrants from Camden, Covert said. 

Authorities realized the next day that the $20s were fakes printed on the wrong paper stock. Cinnaminson police then issued a warrant charging White with forgery. 

Meanwhile, Covert said, White apparently learned at a court appearance that he had been sought on only one warrant in Camden, with a bail requirement of $200. The second warrant, also with $200 bail, had been listed in error. 

"He said, "I want my $200 back,' " Covert said. 

Instead, White received a trip to Burlington County Jail, where he was held Wednesday on $5,000 cash bail.