Fake bill arrest leads to more charges...

Fake bill arrest leads to more charges

Cypress residents Rosendo Pulido and Renee Sidoti were arrested

Aug. 12 on suspicion of passing counterfeit money in Huntington

Beach, officials said.

Huntington Beach Police were flagged down by a Good Guys

electronics store employee who showed the officer a

suspicious-looking $100 bill, which the officer determined was

counterfeit. Police detained Pulido at the store on Beach Boulevard

and then apprehended his alleged accomplice, Sidoti, in the parking

lot of Norm’s restaurant on Beach Boulevard.

Before police stopped her, police report that Sidoti threw a bag

out of her vehicle, police said, that it contained false

identification cards, some drug substances and more counterfeit

money.

Police called the Secret Service because of the large amount of

counterfeit bills involved in the investigation.

When authorities searched the suspects’ Cypress home, they found

two stolen motorcycles, thousands of dollars of counterfeit money in

various denominations, false IDs, several credit cards and credit

information on several victims of identity theft, burglary tools and

copy and scanning machines, along with a computer.

Pulido was charged with burglary, identity theft, passing

counterfeited money, counterfeiting and possession of stolen

property. Sidoti was charged with identity theft, possession of

drugs, possession of stolen property and counterfeiting, police said.

Armed man holds up Taco Bell

An armed robber posing as an employee held up a Taco Bell in

Downtown Huntington Beach on Wednesday, police said.

At about 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Taco Bell on Pacific Coast

Highway and 9th Street a man introduced himself as a former employee

or a worker at a different Taco Bell to the manager, Huntington Beach

Lt. Ed Deuel said. He then pulled out a gun and demanded money,

getting away with an undisclosed amount of cash, Deuel said.

Police are looking for the man, described as about 25-years-old,

with dark hair, a poor complexion and a mustache. Police said he is

5-foot-6, weighing about 170 pounds with a skinny build. He

reportedly wore a collared black shirt and Dickies pants.

Garden Grove man missing after swim

A Garden Grove man was reported missing by his wife on Tuesday

after he failed to return from a swim at Huntington City Beach,

police said.

Ha Son Pham left his home in Garden Grove to go swimming at the

beach sometime between 5:30 and 7 a.m. Tuesday, police said. His wife

filed a missing person report in the afternoon after he did not show

up for work.

Police found Pham’s vehicle near Pacific Coast Highway and 17th

Street, and police have not found any evidence suggesting foul play

or drowning, Lt. Janet Perez said.

Police said Pham is 5-foot-5, weighs 115 pounds and has black hair

and brown eyes. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked

to call the Huntington Beach Police Department at (714) 960-8811.