National Police Criminal Investigations Department (DICRIM) agents have arrested two of four suspects who committed fraud in several stores, buying alcohol, cigarettes and other items using fake US$100 bills.
The arrested men were named as Walder Matos and Johan Gonzalez, who were travelling in a Mercedes Benz, along with two others who escaped with a suitcase believed to contain a large number of counterfeit dollar bills.
According to police, they went shopping in supermarkets and bars and purchased bottles of whisky, wine, cigarettes and other items with the fake dollars, and they were also exchanging them at a rate of 40 to one. Several shopkeepers were affected by the scam.
The two men were arrested on the Las Americas highway as they were trying to buy five bottles of whisky but the others escaped with the suitcase of dollars into the scrubland near La Caleta.
The arrested men were in possession of more than US$600 in fake money.
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