The state justice department is putting out a warning of a sophisticated counterfeit ring working its way through the state. Brown County Sheriff’s detective Roman Aronstein says the group has been making one hundred dollar bills that pass basic inspections.
Jon Demaster brings us more with 715 Newsroom coverage.
The bills will pass a marker test, but when held up to the light, the security strips on these bills read ten instead of one hundred. Aronstein says the bills have turned up in the Green bay area, Kenosha, Elkhorn and Menomonee Falls.