GENEVA — Geneva Police are closing in on suspects in the recent wave of counterfeit money passed in the Geneva area, Police Chief Dan Dudik said Thursday.
The break in the case came Monday, Dudik said, when employees at the Family Dollar store on East Main Street recognized two suspects from past transactions with counterfeit money.
“The employees realized there was a connection, and they called police while the suspects were in the store,” Dudik said.
Suspect Brian Boling, whom police and court records listed as being homeless, saw the approaching officers and took off on foot, police reports show.
The officers used a TASER device to subdue Boling, police reports show, as he continued to struggle with the officers during the arrest.
Northwest Ambulance District paramedics were called to the scene to treat Boling for “difficulty breathing,” after the TASER device use, police reports show, but Boling, 29, was treated at the scene and not transported to a hospital for further care.
Boling is charged with drug abuse, obstruction of official business and resisting arrest, according to Western County Court records. He appeared in court just after his arrest, and he was also booked into the Geneva City Jail on an outstanding warrant for a 2008 theft, court records show.
Robert Mullen, 27, of Geneva, was with Bolin at the time of the arrest, but he did not run from police, Dudik said. Mullen was arrested on an outstanding warrant and is charged with failure to pay 2008 city income tax. He was issued a citation and released, court records show.
Dudik said police have people of interest in the counterfeiting case but did not identify those suspects.
Geneva police put local businesses on alert last week when convenience stores collected counterfeit money in retail transactions. The store manager at the Circle K convenience store on Route 20 noticed a suspicious $1 bill in the cash drawer and called police. She noted the paper “didn’t feel right and the printed images looked blurry,” police reports show. By the end of the weekend, the clerks at the store were aware of the counterfeit money, and a clerk refused $12 in cash: two $1 bills and a $10 bill for merchandise sale. A man also attempted to pay a clerk at the same store with a counterfeit $20 bill, police reports show.
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