Suspect wanted for using fake $100 bills at Cape Coral Walmart

The Cape Coral Police Department’s Financial Crimes Unit wants your help to identify a man accused of passing counterfeit cash.

On December 26th, 2021 at around 10:00 p.m., the suspect entered Walmart located at 2020 NE Pine Island Road and bought a pre-loaded money card with two counterfeit $100 bills.

Walmart Asset Protection reported that the bills were checked with a currency pen yielding a positive result for genuine currency.

A further look at the bills discovered that the $100 bills were previously $1 bills bleached/altered to look like $100 bills.

Both of the bills used shared the exact same serial number tipping off to the fraudulent bills.

The suspect is a man, likely between 25-35 years of age, roughly 5’6” 150-160 lbs with short brown hair. He has a tattoo on his right bicep/inner right forearm and left the scene in a white Toyota sedan.

On the date of the crime, he was wearing a white T-shirt, gray shorts, black/white sneakers (Puma style), and a gold 18”-20” necklace.

Anyone with information is asked to please call the Cape Coral Police Department at (239) 574-3223; send an anonymous tip at capecops.com/tips or new.tipsubmit.com; send us a message through our social media platforms; or call Crimestoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS. Please use case report #21-028491.