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DRAPER -- If you pass counterfeit money intentionally, you'll wind up in big trouble. But what happens when you get a counterfeit bill from a bank? One Draper man now knows, and he isn't happy about it.
Arjen Jonkhart doesn't have a criminal record, but he sure feels like he does. Last Friday, he withdrew $4,500 from a Zions Bank branch in Sandy, all in hundred dollar bills.
Jonkhart says the teller put the money in a sealed envelope. He then went to a Wells Fargo bank branch a few blocks away to deposit the money in his father's account. That is until the teller told him in that sealed envelope he had a fake hundred dollar bill.
"I was very surprised. You don't expect a bank to first take in a hundred dollar bill and not notice it is a fake, and then hand it right back out to the next customer and it's still fake," Jonkhart said.
"I am a foreigner. I'm a naturalized citizen, and in this day and age you always have to worry about where you're registered and who has records on what," Jonkhart said.
Jonkhart is from the Netherlands and is hoping somewhere down the line, for whatever reason, this doesn't come back on him. "Call me paranoid, but I don't like to be registered. I'd like to live my life cleanly, and I don't want to be registered anywhere for anything," he said.
Zions Bank told us its tellers are trained to spot fake bills but wouldn't comment on its security procedures or how one might have sailed through its system then back out. After a call from KSL, Jonkhart told us the bank called him to let him know a new one hundred dollar bill is ready for him to pick up.
E-mail: acabrero@ksl.com
