Police charge woman with distributing fake $100 bills

NORTH UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Police are asking local business owners to be on alert for fake $100 bills.

Over the weekend, police arrested a woman for using the counterfeit money after they'd been searching for her for several weeks. Investigators say she used the fake bill at RJ's Beer Distributor in North Union Township in April.

“This lady came in and asked if she could get change for 100 to get scratchoffs,” clerk Drew DeBerry told Channel 11.

He quickly did the pen test on the $100 bill and it passed.

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“I looked at it and it just looked like a beat-up hundred, and I didn't think much of it,” he said. “Gave her the change and 30 seconds passed before I realized it was counterfeit.  Soon as she saw me looking at it, she just bolted out.”

Workers at the beer distributor wanted channel 11 to share photos of the bill, in hopes of preventing other businesses from getting scammed. As customers, it’s also important for you to be aware what fake bills look like.

This one was actually a $1 bill that was bleached and printed into a fake $100 bill, so it passed the pen test.

State police had been searching for Nessa Teets. She was picked up by Uniontown police Friday night on unrelated charges.

Workers at this RJ’s say other business owners have come forward, saying they’ve been hit, and troopers told them the same thing.

City police told Channel 11 when they found Teets, she was hiding under a pile of clothes.  She had multiple warrants out for her arrest, including burglary and theft.

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