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Gene Carlo Pena Arrested For Counterfeit Bills Found In Midtown Chase ATMS

Man Arrested In Connection To Counterfeit Bills Found In Chase ATMs
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In this May 6, 2012, photo, people use Chase ATM machines at a branch in New York. Americans stepped up their borrowing in May, helped by the largest one-month gain in credit card debt in more than four years. But overall credit card use is still well below where it was just before the Great Recession began. (AP Photo/CX Matiash)

A man believed to have loaded two Manhattan ATM's with counterfeit bills earlier this month was arrested at John F. Kennedy airport Monday afternoon.

FBI officials say 26-year-old Gene Carlo Pena voluntarily returned from the Dominican Republic.

Pena worked for NCR Corporation, an electronics company that services ATM's. He has been charged with stealing roughly $78,000 and counterfeiting money.

On October 8, $110,000 in counterfeit bills was detected inside two Chase ATM's in Midtown Manhattan. The amateur bills were easily distinguishable because they only had printing on one side.

Both the NYPD and Secret Service helped the FBI in the investigation.

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