PARK SLOPE — A shopper at a Fifth Avenue grocery store used fake money to buy groceries, then came back and tried it again, according to a police report.
The man bought $15 in groceries at the Associated Supermarket on Fifth Avenue near Union Street on March 11 about 7:50 p.m. After the shopper left with $85 in change, workers at the store realized he had given them a counterfeit $100 bill, the report stated.
The man returned a short while later to try the same trick and when employees confronted him, he ran out of the store, leaving behind another fake $100 bill, according to the report.
Other recent crimes in the 78th Precinct include the following, with details from police reports:
► A man was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge March 12 about 12:20 a.m. on Ninth Street near Fourth Avenue after police pulled him over for a defective headlight on his 2007 BMW and smelled alcohol on his breath. A breathalyzer revealed a blood alcohol level of .106.
