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Counterfeit Money Seized, Two Arrested On Central Coast

San luis Obispo Police Display Counterfeit Money Seized From Car

A police officer checking up on some people sleeping in a car on the Central Coast found a mobile counterfeit money printing operation.

The officer noticed people in a parking lot of a motel on the 1400 block of Calle Joaquin in San Luis Obispo early Thursday morning. After discovering one of the two people in the car was on felony probation, officers search the vehicle, and say they found drugs. They say they also discovered more than two thousand dollars in counterfeit bills, additional bills which were still unfinished, and a printing press.

The two Fresno residents were booked on various charges including forgery.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.