Man arrested for using real $50 bill

Lorenzo Gaspar of Shelbyville, TN, was arrested for passing a counterfeit $50 bill, only problem is that is wasn't fake at all it was just old.

A clerk at Quik Mart, notified police after Gaspar attempted to pay for his items using a $50 bill, the marker used to detect counterfeit bills didn't check as real.

"The front side of the bill was off center and it didn't feel like a normal bill, it did look to be counterfeit," officer Brock Horner said in his report.



The Times-Gazette reported that after Lorenzo Gaspar was jailed, Horner showed the bill to Sgt. Bill Logue, the Shelbyville Police Department's evidence technician, who told him old legitimate bills wouldn't "check" with a marker and suggested he have it inspected at a bank.

Horner took the bill to two banks, where it was determined as "real but very old" at one and proven real by a black light and magnifying glass at another.

Gaspar was released with an apology.