Lower Saucon Township Police are hoping to identify the man they say perpetrated a con game Monday at the Subway restaurant in the Saucon Square shopping center on Rt. 378.
In a news release, police said the man entered the restaurant at around 6:30 p.m. and purchased a sandwich.
After he paid for the sandwich, he handed the cashier thirty $1 bills and two $5 bills and asked her to give him two $20 bills in return.
The clerk gave him the twenties, and the man then acted as if he were going to leave the store, but instead returned to the counter and handed her a $1 bill.
The man claimed that instead of two twenties, the cashier had mistakenly given him a $1 bill and a $20 bill.
She was thus tricked into believing she had made a mistake and she handed him a $20 in exchange for the $1 bill, police said.
The man was described as white, middle-aged and with a medium complexion. He was also described by the cashier as “dirty” looking, as if he worked as a garbage collector or in construction. Police said he was wearing an olive green windbreaker, jeans and a baby blue baseball cap.
He was last seen getting into the passenger side of a blue Chevy Cavalier-style vehicle driven by a woman. The car was last seen headed north on Rt. 378.
Anyone with information about the man’s identity is asked to call Lower Saucon Township Police at 610-317-6110.