COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Coldwater Police are looking for two suspects after several area businesses were given counterfeit $100 bills on Monday evening.
Police say they are looking for a man who was accompanied by a child between the ages of four and eight. A woman was said to have passed some phony money in another incident.
The bills have been washed, bleached and reprinted with a color printer.
There is no security strip in the paper and they were printed with the image of a 1985 series $100 note.
Police say the printing on the bill is smudged and is not crisp like a genuine $100 bill but it pass a security pen test.
Coldwater Police do not think this week’s incidents are related to what happened last November when Secret Service agents from the Treasury Department investigated counterfeit $100 bills which showed up in some Coldwater business cash registers.
Coldwater Police is asking residents that if they come across one of these counterfeit $100 to contact officer Nick Sanderson at (517) 278-4525 or e-mail him at nsanderson@coldwater.org.
