PLAINS, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a counterfeit $100 bill was discovered at Mohegan Pennsylvania in Luzerne County.<\/p>\n
According to a state police public information release, the incident happened around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, at the casino along Route 315 in Plains Township.<\/p>\n
Police said a 68-year-old Perkasie man took what was believed to be a $100 bill to the casino’s cash cage to exchange it after the bill had been rejected by several machines.<\/p>\n
The bill was determined to be an alleged counterfeit, according to PSP.<\/p>\n
State police took possession of the bill and completed a U.S. Secret Service Counterfeit Note submission form. The bill was then entered into evidence.<\/p>\n
The state police release classified the incident as forgery\/counterfeiting.<\/p>\n
No charges or arrests were reported in connection with the incident, and the police report identifies the man who possessed the bill as the victim.<\/p>\n
State police said information contained in the report is preliminary and could change as additional investigative details emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLAINS, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a counterfeit $100 bill was discovered at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-264622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}