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Woman allegedly arrives in US with $1.2m in fake bills
Boston Globe ^ | July 12, 2016

Posted on 07/12/2016 5:27:54 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

Alejandrina Elsa Quispe Ramirez had allegedly told authorities she was traveling to Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston, so that her son could be treated for burn wounds. But what she had planned, according to the Secret Service, was actually something sinister.

A tip had come from the Peruvian National Police: A woman and her two sons would be traveling to the United States on July 11 carrying a significant amount of US dollars in their luggage, concealed in thread cones, the type of string or yarn spindles used in sewing machines. The Secret Service had recently seized counterfeit US dollars smuggled from Peru in similar fashion.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: counterfeit; money; peru
Who needs bad TV shows when reality strikes every day.
1 posted on 07/12/2016 5:27:55 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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She just has to say she didn’t intend to break any laws and she’d good to go. Am I right?


2 posted on 07/12/2016 5:31:18 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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Exactly..!

No specific evidence of INTENT..!!!

HAD the bills, sure. BUT PURE INTENTIONS..!

No prob!


3 posted on 07/12/2016 5:36:45 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Flick Lives

Maybe the payment is a new form of ObamaCare.


4 posted on 07/12/2016 5:36:57 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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If law enforcement were efficient they would just report that she had been arrested carrying $212,200 in counterfeit currency and release her on her own recognizance pending arraignment. Things would take care of themselves without the expense of lengthy court proceedings, incarceration, etc.


5 posted on 07/12/2016 5:40:14 PM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF (ABM - Anyone But McCain)
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To: ConservativeStatement

A woman of color?


6 posted on 07/12/2016 5:40:22 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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She’ll be allowed to stay and the entire family will be put on welfare.


7 posted on 07/12/2016 5:41:25 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Flick Lives

“She just has to say she didn’t intend to break any laws and she’d good to go. Am I right?”

Dass rite man, it don’t be makin no differt what U dun did, it jes mattur what U wuz wantin ta do. Long as U got sum gud intense U be ok ta ride in yo escapade.


8 posted on 07/12/2016 5:51:30 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The British did this to America during the War for Independence. Sting her up!


9 posted on 07/12/2016 6:08:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Allegedly arrives”? Really? Are there no editors with brains anymore?


10 posted on 07/12/2016 6:22:06 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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