Man arrested after grandkids brings counterfeit bills to school

SF Chronicle ^ | 31 May 2002 | n/a

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A man's grandchildren helped land him in jail after they brought $1,100 in counterfeit bills to school.

School officials called police after the 7-year-old girl showed a handful of $100 bills to classmates, Stanislaus County sheriff's spokesman Tom Letras said.

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Jose Luis Landeras

Is he legal? Where did he learn his trade?

[RippleFire]

Police said they found Jose Luis Landeras, 42, a few hours later Tuesday stuffing moneymaking material down his pants

Hey Jose! Is that a printing plate in your pants or are you just glad to see us?

[wheezer]

The boy's favorite game was Frogger, he said, and his grandpa's favorite game was the "money-making game."

LOL

[verity]

"Show and Tell" day at the local school.

[jlogajan]

I don't understand why people don't leave the country to spend funny money.

Depends which country's penal institution you want to risk.

[capt. norm]

Side note: counterfeit money = "home-made bread"

Maybe he was a liberal and put a picture of Clinton on it. (that would make perfect sense to a liberal)

[Quila]

You know, I don't understand why people don't leave the country to spend funny money.

They do, and most of it is spent overseas. A little print shop I worked for in Germany had a visit from the CIA office in Paris because we printed some dollar-looking promo material and someone tried to pass them off (they had our organization's name on them, and other obvious modifications). We had to give up the plates and film.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

a picture of Clinton on it.. - an excellent idea!

(you do have to be dead to get on money right?)

[aomagrat]

He'll probably pay his fine with brand new $25 bills.

[Looking4Truth]

He'll probably pay his fine with brand new $25 bills.

LOL!

[Erasmus]

He'll probably pay his fine with brand new $25 bills.

With the Clintoon on them, they wouldn't be twentyfives; they'd have to be threes.

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"Children, today we're going to write a letter to a classmate's grandfather, who is incarcerated."

[WaterDragon]

I will never forget one year that was extremely lean for me and my husband. One day he took his check to the bank to cash it. Came home and gave the money to me. I was parceling it out in piles for bills. Saw one twenty that looked different. Checked it, saw that it didn't have "In God We Trust" on it. My husband took it straight back to the bank, along with a couple of other twenties, and exchanged them for tens. It was a risk, but as far as I'm concerned, it wasn't fair for us to be out twenty bucks; I was willing to give the 'funny money' right back to the bank!

[TaxPayer2000]

I was willing to give the 'funny money' right back to the bank!

looks like a confession to me. Expect the new improved F.B.I. to be calling on you soon.

[WaterDragon]

Well, he didn't have a dime in his pockets when he went to the bank. Every cent we had was that cashed check. So the bank was handing out funny money and simply got it back. No doubt they palmed it off on someone else, sadly. You can't convince me the banks always righteously make sure they take counterfeit bills out of circulation.

[aomagrat]

They might have been older bills. "In God We Trust" didn't appear on paper money until the 1950's.

[SSN558]

In another case a bumbling counterfeiter went to the convience store and paid for a pack of gum with a $27 dollar bill. The cashier took it from him and held it up to the light to study it for a minute. Satisfied, she put the $27 in the cash register and gave him two $13's for change.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

a decent quality ink printer and an old set of 20s, 50s and 100s would create something that would spend real well in a lot of the world outside the US.

If you got caught, would you rather pay your debt to society in an American prison, or one in Argentina or Singapore?