Clymer Borough Police have charged a Clymer man with misdemeanor theft by deception for passing a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill at the Kwik Fill station along Route 286. Police say that shortly before 6 PM on Wednesday, they were summoned to the store after a man had tried to pay for his merchandise using the phony money. The clerk had refused to accept the bill and he had taken it and left. The night before, police say, the same man had successfully passed another fake twenty, which was not noticed until the money in the drawer was counted later that night. Using surveillance video, police were able to identify the suspect as 40-year-old Robert Ryan Packer.
Clymer police also report the arrest of a man after a disturbance last Sunday night at a home in the borough. During the investigation, drug paraphernalia was located inside the home, and the man and a woman were both subsequently charged with possession.
