The Great Meadows man — whose name was not released — filed a police report claiming that a bank teller had stolen his money after making a deposit at a bank in Washington Township (Morris County) on Wednesday, July 27, police said in a release on Wednesday, August 3.
A follow-up investigation found that the money was never deposited at the bank in question, and that the man had filed a false report.
The man was charged with filing a false police report and is scheduled to appear in Morris County Superior Court.
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