Police warn of fake $100 bills
Counterfeit $100 bills have been showing up at local businesses, some of them created by washing the ink off real currency and changing the denomination, Kill Devil Hills police say.
Of the counterfeit currency recovered, the original was a $5 bill, the police department said in a statement. Some of the counterfeit bills are photocopies of $100 bills.
The police department said that the washed bills can be identified by the security strip, a band inside the paper with the real denomination printed on it.
Identified as passing the bills have been a black male, 6 feet to 6 feet 2 inches tall and stocky with a “lazy eye;” a black male, 5 feet 10 inches tall with a medium build and dressed in black clothing; and a white female, about 50 years old. Police had no further description of the woman.
Police are asking merchants to examine bills and report suspicious ones. They urge that suspicious bills be handled as little as possible to preserve fingerprint evidence.
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