The Local Police today arrested two women, residents of Cartagena, who were making small purchases with fake 50-euro bills in shops in Totana in order to obtain the exchange with legal tender and thus defraud the owners of these establishments.The detainees used the same purchasing practice by acquiring articles of a quantity or a reduced amount with these counterfeit notes - all of them from the same series - in order to generate legal tender.Apparently, there is a third person involved who has not been arrested, so the Local Police alert Totana business owners who may have suspicions of someone who has used this same method of payment, to inform the Local Police or Civil Guard; at the same time that they recommend extreme precautions with people who can use this procedure.The women have been arrested for a crime of counterfeiting and stamping, punishable by imprisonment based on the amount swindled and a fine that can amount to ten times the apparent value of the coin.
