Redondo Beach Girl Scout cookies paid for with counterfeit $100 bills
These two counterfeit $100 bills were used to purchase Girl Scouts cookies from Scouts at a North Redondo Beach market this past weekend. Photo courtesy Tammy Saunt Redondo Beach police are investigating a counterfeit bill scam that took advantage of a Girl Scout cookie booth outside of a North Redondo grocery store on Sunday night. Tammy Saunt could tell immediately that something wasn’t right with the $100 bill handed to her by a member of her Girl Scout troop. A pair of girls from Troop 4595 were sitting at a table, set up outside the Vons store at 4001 Inglewood Avenue on Feb. 23, when they were approached by a woman carrying a dog. The woman bought eight boxes of cookies from the girls, paying with a $100 bill, then walked inside the store. When she came out, she bought two more boxes, paying with a second $100. “My daughter was so excited — ‘Oh, she just gave us two hundreds!’ Then I saw them,” Saunt said. At first glance, they looked normal. But when she touched them, she knew — they just didn’t feel like cash. “Who gave them to you?” she asked. A woman, the girls said. She was really nice, but she had no teeth. Saunt couldn’t fault the girls. This is the one time of year…
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