8 suspected of passing counterfeit bills in Minn.

Police have arrested eight people suspected of passing counterfeit $100 bills in the North Branch area.

North Branch police were called Friday to a Burger King to investigate a phony $100 bill that was passed to an employee.

Officers stopped a sport utility vehicle and arrested the suspect - a woman - along with the seven other people with her.

Interim North Branch Police Chief Dan Meyer says the group also is suspected of passing counterfeit $100s at eight stores in a North Branch outlet mall earlier that day.

Meyer says the suspects were charged Monday with aiding and abetting counterfeit currency, a felony. The suspects are from Minneapolis, Brooklyn Center, Chicago and South Bend, Ind., and range in age from 19 to 35. They're in the Chisago County Jail.

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