1 THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Fake bills Search is on for flood area walk-up gunman By TONY BRITT 40 years old, with dreadlocks to the middle through the drive through window. Counterfeit
[email protected] of his face. Perez reported that the suspect appeared at According to Lake City Police Department the window holding a yellow Dollar General $50’s, $20’s, $5’s Local authorities are searching for an armed reports, around 12:24 a.m. officer Larry bag, demanding that she fill it with money. man who walked up to a fast food restaurant Thomas was dispatched to McDonald’s, 491 Perez said she told the man she did not circulating here. drive-through window early Wednesday and SW Main Blvd., for an attempted armed rob- have a key or pass code to open the cash pulled a pistol on an employee in a failed rob- bery. draw, but the man again demanded that she By TONY BRITT bery attempt. Unable to get cash, the suspect Teresa Perez, a McDonald’s employee, fill the bag. Perez again explained to the
[email protected] fled on foot. told authorities she had just taken a food Authorities are looking for a black man, 35- order when she saw a black, handgun coming GUNMAN continued on 6A The Lake City Police Department has launched an investigation into counter- feit currency after at least 10 Flood victims losing out on relief local businesses called and reported customers passed or attempted to pass the fake bills.