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Message:: [QUOTE="rickmp, post: 1088051, member: 28047"]From Projo.com Nov. 10, 2010 Newport, RI Counterfeiting charges dropped against driver. The state police Thursday dropped charges against a North Smithfield driver who was accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill to pay the toll on the Pell Bridge last week. Lt. Frank Sullivan confirmed that the case had been dropped. He said a pen test, commonly used by supermarket cashiers, gave a false reading. A yellow streak means the bill is genuine. But the pen left a black streak on the bill, usually a signal that a bill is a phony. The problem was, Sullivan said, that the test doesn’t work on bills printed prior to 1996. The toll booth operator summoned the state police Oct. 27 when the black streak was detected. Troopers questioned the driver, Steven J. Lambert, of 30 Greenville Rd., who told them he obtained the bill from the Navigant Credit Union branch in Woonsocket. The police impounded Lambert’s car, released him with a court summons, and contacted the Secret Service, which handles counterfeit cases for the U.S. Treasury. The story was first reported in the North Kingstown Standard Times.[/QUOTE]