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Deputies: Strip Club Patron Used Counterfeit Money

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By BART PFANKUCH

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Published: December 15, 2008

PALMETTO - Even though he had $2,300 cash on him, a Palmetto man tried to use funny money to pay for services at a strip club, and his scheme backfired, deputies say.

Deputies were called to Pandora's Box on U.S. 41 North in Palmetto on Saturday night by an employee who said a customer had passed seven phony $20 bills and that the man was still drinking in the club.

A deputy approached Anthony Lamar King, 44, of the 2600 block of Sixth Avenue East, and asked him to come outside and talk.

King complied, and he was asked about the counterfeit bills, which a deputy noted were not the right type of paper and did not have the security strip present in legitimate currency.

During questioning, King tried to walk away and resisted arrest, so he was stunned with an electric shock weapon, tackled and eventually handcuffed.

Deputies determined King's car was in the parking lot, and his girlfriend gave permission to search it. Inside, deputies found baggies of marijuana, packages of powder and rock cocaine, and blue prescription pills, according to the arrest report. They also found 18 more fake bills, the report states.

King was arrested on felony charges of posssessing and using forged bills and possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to deliver.

The report states that King also had $2,363 cash.

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