A Salem man was arrested Sunday after he repeatedly purchased Girl Scout cookies using counterfeit money, police said.

Camden Ducharme, 36, was taken into custody and charged with forgery and theft, according to officials.

Earlier this month, Tiffany Brown said a man visited the cookie booth she and her two daughters were running Sunday morning outside the Walmart Supercenter at 3025 Lancester Drive in Salem.

The man asked a ton of questions, Brown recalled, and seemed “fidgety." He paid for a $5 box of Tagalongs with a $20 bill and received $15 in change, but Brown’s 13-year-old daughter, Ava, immediately noticed the bill seemed odd.

“As soon as he was out of ear shot, she said ‘I don’t think this money is real,’ “ Brown said.

At first glance, in a photo Brown shared on Facebook, the counterfeit money doesn’t look all that suspicious. But the bill was slightly smaller than the other twenties in their till, it had a bluish tint, and the texture of the paper wasn’t quite right.

On the left is a real $20 bill. On the right is the bill that Tiffany Brown said was determined to be counterfeit when it was used at her daughter's cookie booth.Tiffany Brown

“We called the non-emergency police line and the police officer took (the bill) and said ‘yes, this is a fake,’” Brown said. “It’s pretty unbelievable.”

Police said they responded to at least one other incident in which Ducharme used counterfeit bills to buy Girl Scout cookies.

Using video surveillance, and with collaboration from Walmart’s loss prevention team, police identified Ducharme and he was arrested when he returned to the store on Sunday. He was being held in Marion County Correctional Facility, officials said.

Camden Ducharme, 36, was arrested for allegedly using counterfeit bills to purchase Girl Scout cookies in Salem, police said.

-- Kale Williams

kwilliams@oregonian.com

503-294-4048

@sfkale

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