Apr 12, 2010

Counterfeiters pass the buck in Alaska

Evidence of a low-stakes counterfeit operation showed up recently in Juneau, Alaska.

Juneau police say the economy may be affecting lawbreakers when employees at a Juneau bar opened up their tip jar to find counterfeit money in an unusual denomination - one dollar bills.

Jack Tripp, owner of the Viking Lounge, says that in the 19 years he has owned the establishment, it has received counterfeit money only twice. Both times were in the last year, and both times they were fake $20 bills.

Juneau Police Department spokeswoman Cindee Brown-Mills says the latest fake bills were probably printed off the Internet. Some were blank on one side.

She says the economy must be really bad if people are counterfeiting $1 bills.

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