{"id":62352,"date":"2026-02-13T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=62352"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:30:00","slug":"rcmp-warning-east-hants-residents-of-counterfeit-20-bills-in-circulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=62352","title":{"rendered":"RCMP warning East Hants residents of counterfeit $20 bills in circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> RCMP in East Hants are warning the public and business owners in the community of reports of counterfeit Canadian $20 bills circulating in East Hants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cpl. Evan Collier, with Rawdon RCMP, said these bills are marked with \u2018prop money\u2019 and are missing the silver hologram. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is important that businesses stay vigilant about counterfeit currency,&#8221; said Cpl. Collier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He said if you are given a bill you are unsure of, it is ok to refuse it and ask for another form of payment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If a counterfeit bill is accepted, try to limit handling of the bill and contact police,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cpl. Collier said if you have any information, please contact East Hants RCMP at 1-902-883-7077.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File number: 2026194438<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENFIELD: RCMP in East Hants are warning the public and business owners in the community of reports of counterfeit Canadian $20 bills circulating in East Hants. Cpl. Evan Collier, with Rawdon RCMP, said these bills are marked with \u2018prop money\u2019 and are missing the silver hologram. \u00a0 &#8220;It is important that businesses stay vigilant about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[1224,10336,1477,4505,196,986,1193,14],"class_list":["post-62352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-businesses","tag-counterfeit-20","tag-counterfeit-money","tag-cpl-evan-collier","tag-east-hants","tag-elmsdale","tag-rawdon","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}