Man admits purchase using photocopied banknotes
Supermarket staff confronted a 31-year-old Sockburn man who bought groceries with poor quality photocopies of $20 notes.
The man, Glenn Stephen Bielawski, a driver, today admitted the charge of knowingly possessing forged bank notes, after police dropped two charges of dishonestly using counterfeit banknotes.
Beilawski had originally pleaded not guilty and was listed for a defended hearing in the Christchurch District Court today, but the case was settled without the hearing before Judge John Strettell.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Simcox said the offence occurred about 4.50pm on August 13, 2013, in the Pak’n’Save supermarket at Westfield, Riccarton, when Bielawski bought grocery items worth $65.
He paid for the items at the check-out with four counterfeit $20 notes. “The notes were identified as counterfeit by Pak’n’Save staff and the defendant was confronted and police were contacted.”
The notes were poor quality photocopies and they all had the same serial number. Bielawski had no plausible explanation for how he came to have them.
Judge Strettell remanded him on bail for sentence on December 3.
His arrest followed a warning by police to Christchurch retailers in August last year after reports of counterfeit notes being used at shops in Riccarton. At the time, the police said the notes were not high quality copies, but could look and feel genuine and could go undetected in a busy store.
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