Posted on 05/10/2022 4:58:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Sacramento man was arrested after he allegedly used counterfeit $100 bills at an Auburn Home Depot – and deputies say they found even more fake cash in his car.
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office says, back on April 26, deputies responded to the store to investigate.
Deputies say they were able to stop the suspect, identified as 46-year-old Sacramento resident Chia Saechao, as he was walking out of the store.
Saechao is suspected of using five counterfeit $100 to buy items at Home Depot that day. Seven other counterfeit $100 bills were later found in his car, deputies say, along with about eight grams of suspected methamphetamine.
Saechao was arrested and is facing charges of possession of counterfeit money and possession of a controlled substance.
Chia? Does he have green hair?
He must be one of St Floyd of Fentanyl’s disciples.
Doesn’t he know only the Fed is allowed to create worthless money?
Wonder if this is the same man? https://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/07/22/chia-saechao-arrest-drugs-lincoln/
Probably.
A good reason to not shop there.
They jack up the prices so the honest folks bear the cost of the shop lifters.
It’s funny you mention that, because I’m listening to “The Creature from Jekyll Island” as I browse the web.
I just got back from a farm store and only bought two bottles of soda. When I paid for them in $1.00 bills the girl checked each one to see if they were counterfeit.
She said it was just a habit she got into.
I sure hope he wasn’t black and wasn’t stopped by a cop who wrestled him to the ground and kneeled on his neck!
Guess not with that name - but you never know!
A common ploy is to spend the counterfeit money on goods and return the goods a few days later for genuine money.
Yep, only the fed can print fiat monopoly money.
Post of the day for the entire Internet world!
I was at a Dollar Tree once when a guy tried to pass a fake $100 buying $3 worth of stuff.
Using $100 bills for cash purchases is not uncommon at all for any business doing lots of building products. Low end “handy men” and “contractors” work and pay on this basis. So that's not much of a red flag. People handling cash are trained to recognize counterfeit bills but that is pretty common for all retail.
Most big box stores and most of the hours of the day, there is a security person on shift. Typically this will be a burly ex. LEO or military male probably with a police MOS. The security person is a nondescript shopper wondering the store or in a back room monitoring cameras that cover the interior, perimeter and parking lot. Eyes in the sky.
Security can and will physically apprehend the bad people, detain and call police as long as they are within the store. All other employees are explicitly not authorized to physically apprehend anyone. Outside the doors, security's legal authority stops.
The eyes in the sky though record everything and even the getaways have videos of their actions in and out of the store to turn over to police. Individual employees working on the floor can and do report a suspected bad person in seconds via their store phone broadcast to the PA system using an innocuous code phrase. This kind of system is common for larger box stores.
I read it was $5 bills that were “the most counterfeited”. (South of the border).
Last fall, I watched a Coyote pay for three VA motel rooms with envelopes of $5 bills.
Afterwards, i advised the clerk, who was intrigued, but wasn’t going to “stir things up”.
Chia, from a July 2020 arrest.
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