Secret Service takes over investigation of counterfeit bills

Havre Police Department investigators said they have turned over a regional counterfeit money investigation to the Secret Service.

The police dispatch log shows that an Independence Bank employee reported receiving a counterfeit $20 bill Monday at 3:13 p.m.

Lt. Aaron Wittmer said bank employees had already been on the lookout for counterfeit money after the bank received a counterfeit $50 bill a few weeks before. The fake 20 was passed through the teller window and the police have no suspects.

The 20 bill, Wittmer said, was “one of the better ones I’d seen.”

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