“It’s a poor subject,” said Scott Lansford, speaking of one of his past customers.

Lansford Kawasaki/Suzuki Incorporated has a lot of good customers. Scott Lansford and Sandra Danson thought Damian Paul Castillo was another one.

“A gentleman came in, very polite, he was looking at buying a motorcycle,” Lansford remembered.

“He told me he had just came back from Iraq and that he was a medic over there,” said Danson.

The two said the alleged Airman picked out a white Kawasaki to take home.

Castillo bought the beauty at a discount after showing a card saying he was in the military.

The store gave him a manufacturers discount, and he was exempt from paying sales tax.

Two thousand dollars total was deducted from the overall price. He walked away paying a little more than $9,000 for the bike.

“If you have never been in the military before and listened to this guy talk you would have been convinced he was in the Air Force,” said Investigator Ben Waller with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department.

Investigators said Castillo was never in the Air Force, although he wore a military uniform most everywhere. He received discounts from most stores he shopped at.

On top of that, the credit card he used 25 times in Cumberland County was not valid. Castillo just happened to know the override code and was able to buy big.

According to the police report, Castillo spent $14,102 in bad checks and through credit card fraud.

While behind bars, Waller said Castillo told investigators he got the idea from an airplane ride.

“He said he was in the R.O.T.C. in high school, and he had on a uniform and he got upgraded from coach to first class,” Waller said.

Castillo was charged with 25 counts of fraudulent use of a credit card. He was also charged with writing bad checks and for criminal impersonation.

The 19 year-old will make his initial appearance in Cumberland County Thursday morning.

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