POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — An Ohio man is jailed and charged with having counterfeit money in Mason County.
Deputies said Muridi Hussein, 25, of Columbus, Ohio, was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to use counterfeit currency at the Dollar General store in Point Pleasant.
Store staff told deputies about a “similar incident” earlier in the day at a store in Tupper Plains, Ohio.
Deputies conducted a traffic stop on Hussein’s vehicle. They said there was a “large quantity” of counterfeit money, along with printing equipment, inside the vehicle.
Hussein is charged with possession of counterfeit currency with intent to utter.
He’s being held in the Western Regional Jail on $25,000 bail.