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  • Police: RI man's fake $100 bill had wrong face

    November 15, 2012 12:55 PM

    ATTLEBORO, Mass. - A Rhode Island man police say used counterfeit $100 bills to make purchases at a Target store made a critical mistake. The bills had a picture of President Abraham Lincoln on them. Real $100 bills bear a picture of Benjamin Franklin. Lincoln's portrait graces the $5 bill.... more »
  • Pa. bag handler charged in theft of new $100 bills

    October 24, 2012 12:47 PM

    PHILADELPHIA - Federal authorities in Philadelphia say an airport baggage handler has been charged with stealing $20,000 in a new type of $100 bill never released to the public. Prosecutors say Alex Price was working Oct. 11 when a US Airways flight arrived from Dallas carrying millions of dollars in... more »
  • 2 men booked with counterfeiting

    September 16, 2010 6:14 AM

    Louisiana authorities have arrested two men accused of passing counterfeit $100 bills made from $5 bills washed with oven cleaner. Zachary Police Chief John Herty tells The Advocate that officers recovered four of five fake bills that one of the suspects said they passed at local stores for merchandise that... more »
  • Fake $100 bills found in East Feliciana Parish

    September 17, 2009 6:52 AM

    Deputies in East Feliciana Parish have recovered four counterfeit $100 bills passed at local businesses and expect to find more. Detectives say the bogus notes are printed on bleached and washed $5 bills and a counterfeit detection pen does not create the black stain associated with wood-based paper. When the... more »

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