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A Lake City, Fla., Walmart employee was suspicious when a customer paid with five $20 bills that looked like photocopies. When the cashier asked the woman about it, she fled. Two days later, a Lake City Applebee’s restaurant employee found similar bills had been left behind as payment. Police were able to trace her this time: the customer took off so fast, she left her mobile phone. When an officer returned the phone to Brandi Harden, 30, he also pulled out a plastic bag with the bills and asked her about them. “Harden immediately became embarrassed and began to stammer as she spoke,” an LCPD spokesman said. The hotel room where Harden was staying was searched, and officers found numerous counterfeit bills, blank paper, and a printer. “It was determined that Harden had not only been passing counterfeit bills,” the spokesman said, but also “she had been producing them herself.” Harden was arrested and charged with possession of counterfeit bills, as well as possession of drugs and paraphernalia. (MS/Gainesville Sun) ...The fakes would’ve looked better if she wasn’t low on cyan ink.