SULLIVAN COUNTY, Ind – Sullivan County Sheriff Clark Cottom issued a press release on Friday saying that on December 16th last year his department received a complaint from the Sunoco gas station on W. Wolfe Street, about a man who paid for merchandise with suspected counterfeit money.
A deputy recovered a $100 counterfeit bill and then reviewed surveillance video showing the transaction. The suspect could not be identified at that time.
Later that same day, the department received a separate report from an individual who had sold an ATV via Facebook Marketplace. The buyer paid for the ATV with $1600, in counterfeit bills.
After a lengthy investigation police identified the suspect as 28 year old Justin Abbott of Cynthiana, Ind.Earlier this week ( Monday 1/13/20) police arrested Abbott in Vincennes.
Abbott is being held in the Sullivan County Jail on counterfeit and auto theft charges.
His bond was set at $16,000.