Counterfeiters Caught

Two men were caught feeding bogus $100 into the slot machines at the Sho-Ka-Wah Casino in California. Jack Daniels Ewing, 27, and Mikael Inturbe, 27, were arrested on charges of conspiracy, counterfeiting and burglary after a four-month investigation.

The two men would bleach one dollar bills then use a home printer to reprint $100 bills onto the paper. The suspects would then take the counterfeit bills to the casino and feed them into the bill receptors, then immediately cash out and leave the casino. On a few occasions they played the machines winning up to $4,000. It is estimated that the pair bilked at least 20 casinos in Northern California and Nevada out of more than $100,000.

According to FBI statistics, there are approximately 100,000 forgery and counterfeiting charges filed in the United States annually.