A 33-year-old Hawthorne man was arrested after businesses in Palatka received counterfeit currency as payment over the course of several weeks, police said.
Daniel Jason Smith was arrested Wednesday on charges stemming from counterfeit cases and the next day authorities added three counts of uttering a forged bill, according to the Palatka Police Department.
Two gas stations and a Family Dollar in Palatka were hit by someone using false bills from July 27 to August 2, police said.