A Rome man was arrested early Wednesday morning after a clerk at a local restaurant took a fake $20 bill at the restaurant’s drive-through window and remembered a similar vehicle had passed through the restaurant using a counterfeit $20 the night before.

According to Floyd County jail and Rome police reports:

Kevin Datrell Brown Jr., 21, of 119 Hardy Ave., was detained after passing one of the fake bills at the Steak ’n Shake on Turner McCall Boulevard at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.

When police arrived, Brown claimed he had gotten a paycheck the day before and cashed it at a convenience store in South Rome where he got the cash.

Upon further investigation, officers determined that Brown had also passed counterfeit $20s late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning at Walgreen’s and a Kangaroo convenience store in North Rome.

Police also said a car matching the vehicle Brown was driving had passed a counterfeit $20 at another fast food restaurant the night before.

Brown was charged with four counts of felony forgery. He was released on bond.

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