{"id":38195,"date":"2015-12-29T16:59:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=38195"},"modified":"2015-12-29T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T21:59:40","slug":"counterfeit-bills-make-their-way-to-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/12\/counterfeit-bills-make-their-way-to-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterfeit Bills Make <br>Their Way To Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-38196\" title=\"Fake Real money\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fake-Real-money-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fake-Real-money-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fake-Real-money.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Counterfeit cash has been popping up in Lehigh Acres, and it&#8217;s not just big bills as some stores are now forced to check $1&#8217;s and $5&#8217;s to make sure they&#8217;re real.<\/p>\n<p>Most people don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a big deal if it&#8217;s a fake $20, but when you take it to the bank&#8230;when you&#8217;ve got one fake $20 and fake $100 and big $50&#8217;s, it adds up, and our local owners weren&#8217;t happy.<\/p>\n<p>You have to stop and check every one, and then people look at you like, Why are you doing that? It&#8217;s a $1. The only way to stop it is to take the necessary time to check one bill and check them all.<\/p>\n<p>We did check with both Fort Myers Police Department and the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. They say there has not been an increase in counterfeit cash, and that it&#8217;s simply normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counterfeit cash has been popping up in Lehigh Acres, and it&#8217;s not just big bills as some stores are now forced to check $1&#8217;s and $5&#8217;s to make sure they&#8217;re&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}