WINNIPEG – Police say they’ve busted a counterfeit money operation.
Officers were alerted March 12 to someone trying pay for a purchase at a store in the 400 block of Portage Avenue using counterfeit US $20 bills.
The man was arrested and found with “numerous counterfeit Canadian and American bank notes,” police said in a news release Tuesday.
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The next day, officers raided a home at Yale Ave. and Wabasha St. in Transcona and seized a scanner/printer, a laptop computer and counterfeit bills, both completed and not completed.
“A 28-year-old male from Winnipeg is facing a number of charges including Possess Counterfeit Instruments, Making Counterfeit Money and the Possession and Uttering of Counterfeit Money,” police say.
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Police say retailers and the public can learn more about counterfeit money on the Bank of Canada’s website.
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