Published May 01, 2012
Associated Press
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee
police are apologizing after arresting a man for using a $50 bill they thought
was fake but that turned out to be real.
Police in Shelbyville thought
the bill was counterfeit after a convenience store clerk called them. The clerk
said a marker used to detect false money didn't show the bill was real.
The Shelbyville Times-Gazette
(http://bit.ly/JL6mJx) reported Officer Brock Horner arrested Lorenzo Gaspar on
Friday.
But a police evidence
technician told the arresting officer that some old bills don't react to the
markers. So police gave the money to two banks to check, and they said it was
real but just very old.
Gaspar was released from jail
and police apologized to him.