Ewwwwwww. That’s all I could muster.
According to this amusing Covington Police Department report, Pike was attempting to pay for $1671.55 in merchandise, but a Wal-Mart clerk called over her manager when she was handed the bogus bill (instead of handing over $998,328.45 in change).
As first reported by Joey Peters of the Newton Citizen, Pike was arrested for forgery and booked into the sheriff's lockup, where the below mug shot was taken. Pike, who told cops that her husband had given her the $1 million bill, was found to have two more phony seven-figure notes in her purse.
“Buckner filed for a death benefit from the company on April 30, 2008, claiming her daughter died earlier that month, and she was given $10,000 after producing what turned out to be a false Cook County death certificate.
Then on Sept. 25, 2008 she filed a claim for $15,000 death benefit, claiming her husband died on Sept. 17, 2008.
There was no obituary and company officials grew suspicious...”