Ghanaian man arrested in US for using counterfeit money
A Ghanaian man has been arrested in the US for using counterfeit money.
The man, Godford Sumabe who was said to have used the counterfeit money in Cascade and Teton Counties is now in custody in Denver according to news from Montana.
Sumabe reportedly arrived in Great Falls from Ghana March 16, 2009 and the next day, he bought a service truck from Bouma Truck Sales in Choteau with $35,000 in cash and asked that the truck should be delivered to Florida.
The reports said he flew to Denver that night paying $700 in counterfeit for the plane ticket, but the ticket agent became suspicious about the money and called the police.
When he was about to leave for Ghana, Sumabe contacted the truck company Bouma and spoke about the truck, but he was arrested in Denver and he faces federal and state charges.
The media in Montana quoted Neal Bouma, owner of Bouma Truck Sales explaining that Sumabe, “was interested in a service truck we had because he was in the rental business in Ghana and he needed this truck for servicing his equipment.”
He added, “my salesman talked to him for a short period of time and then he never heard from him again for about four or five days, and the next time we got a phone call, it was supposedly from U.S. Customs in New York City - they wanted an address for where this guy was headed.”
According to Bouma not all of the $35,000 was counterfeit; he’s been told by police and the Secret Service that most of it was real, and he says the truck never left Choteau. He’s not sure if the call he received from Customs was legitimate.
It’s not known if Sumabe is connected with other recent counterfeit schemes in Great Falls and Helena, the reports say.
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