Lower Burrell Police accused a Philadelphia man of using bogus $100 bills at four Sheetz locations and a liquor store in the Alle-Kiski Valley.
Quidare Carl Daily, 27, was charged with seven felony counts of forgery and seven counts of theft by deception. He was released on a $100,000 unsecured bond to await a preliminary hearing before District Judge Cheryl Peck Yakopec on Jan. 17. Daily was charged Nov. 2 but wasn’t taken into custody until Dec. 14, court records show.
Police responding to a Nov. 29 call to the Sheetz on Craigdell Road wrote in a criminal complaint that a man used a $100 bill to buy a bottle of water then returned the following afternoon to buy a $25 gift card with a $100 bill that had the same serial number as the bill he used the night before.
Security video from the store shows the man leaving Sheetz and going to the state liquor store in the same plaza where he used a counterfeit $100 bill to buy a bottle of tequila, police said.
Investigators were able to identify Daily because he had to show an ID card when he bought the liquor, and the photo matched images captured by the security cameras, the complaint said.
Surveillance video also showed the license on the Chevy SUV Daily was driving and allowed police to use plate readers to trace its route to three other Sheetz stores, the complaint said.
Police said Daily passed a fake $100 bill at the Sheetz on Freeport Street in New Kensington, one at the store on Pittsburgh Street in Cheswick and two at the location along Freeport Road in Harmar.
