Warrant: Man bought cellphone with counterfeit $100 bills

The private sale of a cellphone from one man to another in Wake Forest led police there to investigate the buyer for passing counterfeit bills.

According to a search warrant for the Rocky Mount home Torie Travon Whitaker, the seller told police that Whitaker paid for the phone with four $100 bills that "did not seem real." As the seller looked more closely at the money, he said, Whitaker fled.

The seller and police tracked Whitaker through Facebook and law enforcement databases to his home at 402 Cokey Road in Rocky Mount and searched the property on Aug. 14.

Whitaker, who was on probation, faces new charges of obtaining property by false pretense and uttering a forged instrument.